Radical information literacy
Subtitle: reclaiming the political heart of the IL movement
By: Andrew Whitworth
Series: Chandos information professional series; Chandos information professional series
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781843347484; 9781780634296
Subjects: Information literacy; Media literacy; Information Literacy
Description: What would a synthetic theory of Digital, Media and Information Literacy (DMIL) look like? Radical Information Literacy presents, for the first time, a theory of DMIL that synthesises the diversity of perspectives and positions on DMIL, both in the classroom and the workplace, and within the informal learning processes of society. This title is based on original analysis of how decisions are made about the relevance of information and the other resources used in learning, showing how society has privileged objective approaches (used in rule-based decision making) to the detriment of subjective and intersubjective perspectives which promote individual and community contexts. The book goes on to analyse the academic and popular DMIL literature, showing how the field may have been, consciously or unwittingly, complicit in the 'objectification' of learning and the disempowerment of individuals and communities. Alternative ways of conceiving the subject are then presented, towards a reversal of these trends. Synthesises key theorists of digital, media and information literacy and information behaviour. Includes the field of 'community informatics'. Conducts a bibliometric analysis of a broad spectrum of writings on digital, media and information literacy, analysing the connections between them and the frames of DMIL within which they are located.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-227) and index.
Table of contents: title: Deconstructing IL. Basic concepts and terminology; title: The early days of IL; title: The diversity of IL; title: The institutionalising of IL; title: Reconstructing IL. Colonising IL; title: Mikhail Bakhtin and IL; title: Practising IL; title: Reclaiming IL.