A charge como documento: uma proposta a partir da análise documentária

This paper deals with the characterization of the charge as a document within the scope of the knowledge organization. The objective is to investigate the informative character of the political cartoon from the application of the variables of the subject analysis. It selects subject analysis as the theoretical approach of thematic treatment of information, in the scope of Information Science, for the purposes of analysis. This paper proposed the variables of the analysis of political cartoon are: a) the narrative estructure of political cartoon; b) the information present in the political cartoon; c) the terminology of the area; d) custody institutions for political cartoons; e) the users of the political cartoon and f) the stock of the previous knowledge of the analyst and his ideological formation. It concludes the subject analysis is a possible approach for assay at the political cartoon as a document, enabling its thematic treatment, proposing variables for the subject analysis of political cartoons in the scope of information retrieval systems.