When understanding the act of reading as subjective, cultural and political, it is necessary to reflect on how reading mediation can contribute for the subjects to understand its sense and significance and to build and strengthen their identity process and social protagonism. Therefore, it is fundamental to deepen the research that demonstrates the importance of reading mediation in this process. In this perspective, this article aims to highlight, from the Information Science literature and related areas , which deals with reading mediation, aspects that address the process of attributing sense and significance for identity recognition and strengthening as basic to achieve social protagonism. This research is characterized as qualitative a...