Abstract/Résumé/Resumen
This is a research on Cultural Diffusion as a promoting and opportune action for local cultural manifestations and cultural informational and historical knowledge, particularly in Information Units (IU), whose general objective was to understand the concept of Cultural Diffusion in the Units of Information, from the Brazilian scientific production. Therefore, an exploratory and bibliographic research was carried out using the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method, due to its auditable, reproducible, impartial character and that reduces the number of biases in the research, being structured in 7 steps: question of research, search strategy, inclusion and exclusion criteria, literature search, data evaluation and selection, data extraction and synthesis. The research databases were SCIELO, IBICT Repository, BDTD, Web of Science and BRAPCI, from 2000 to 2021, and the software used for data processing was StArt. In conclusion, it was found that Cultural Diffusion is used as a tool for disseminating information, structured, dialogic and assertive, which acts on the user in the construction of knowledge, in the appropriation of information and culture, in addition to opening paths for the dissemination of IU and recognition of their role and importance in society
