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Alternatives to Being Information Literate
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of ALM.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9196-2106
2018 (English)In: Information Literacy in the Workplace / [ed] Serap Kurbanoğlu, Joumana Boustany, Sonja Špiranec, Esther Grassian, Diane Mizrachi, Loriene Roy, Springer, 2018, p. 813-821Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In contrast to the relative abundance of conceptualisations of information literacy, the earlier research has placed considerably less attention on its alternatives. The findings show that there are shades of being less and non-literate beyond a mere lack of necessary skills or engagement in inappropriate practices. Information illiteracy can be experienced as a problem but it can also represent a conscious choice for delimiting and organising information practices. From a theoretical and practical perspective, this study suggests that both information literacies and information illiteracies should be taken into account in information literacy research and education, and when developing and deploying information systems and services to compensate for the lack of literacies.

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Springer, 2018. p. 813-821
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Communications in Computer and Information Science, ISSN 1865-0929 ; 810
Keywords [en]
Information literacy, Information illiteracy, Information anxiety, Satisficing
National Category
Information Studies
Research subject
Library and Information Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-340579DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-74334-9_82ISI: 000547778300082ISBN: 978-3-319-74333-2 (print)ISBN: 978-3-319-74334-9 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-340579DiVA, id: diva2:1179296
Conference
5th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2017, September 18-21, 2017, Saint Malo, France
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Swedish Research Council, 340-2012-5751Available from: 2018-01-31 Created: 2018-01-31 Last updated: 2021-06-02Bibliographically approved

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