A DIMENSÃO SOCIOESPACIAL DO CONHECIMENTO COMO TRAÇO EXISTENCIAL DO HOMEM E DE SEU TERRITÓRIO/DIMENSIÓN SOCIO-ESPACIAL DEL CONOCIMIENTO COMO UNA MARCA EXISTENCIAL DEL HOMBRE Y SU TERRITORIO

Introduction: It analyzes information as a crucial dimension in the process of social reproduction and therefore as a phenomenon that cannot be neglected in the analysis of society. Objective: To position the use of information and knowledge as a social and highly collective practice, which establishes the relationship between individuals and between the individual and their environment (territory), based on the social paradigm of information. Methodology: Develops a well-articulated theory from literary research, employing an interdisciplinary approach, which deals with the place of information and knowledge in society and the relationship between the categories of Social Control and Social Control of Information as a social mechanism for effective information governance, under an information system, to meet the informational and communicational needs of society. Conclusions: Social Control applied to the field of information (Social Control of Information) is presented as a strategic mechanism to enable the effective management and socialization of local information based on the right to information; to channel and facilitate the participation of civil society under a system of information and to promote processes of information governance.