Information as evidence and mental health: hashtag "cut4zayn" and youth automutilation

Abstract

The present study was performed by retrieving “information-as-thing” as “evidence” in Michael Buckland (1991). It focuses on the evidence of youth self-mutilation resulting from the “informative phenomenon” of Zayn Malik's departure from the music group One Direction. This phenomenon, grouped and retrieved through the hashtag “Cut4Zayn”. The methodology consists of the Indiciarism method psychoanalytic basis applied to Information Science through triangulation strategies between Information Science, Psychoanalysis and Sociology. The critical analysis was performed by Aldo Barreto (2008) and Tefko Saracevic (2008) in interdisciplinary dialogue with the commodity fetish in Karl Marx (1996), the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud (1969) and the authors: Cecília Orsini (2011); Márcia Rodrigues (2013); and Marta Cardoso (2016). Which dissert about the psychosocial dimension employed to analyze the evidences of the phenomenon.