| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 191 pages) |
| Series |
Chandos information professional series |
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Chandos information professional series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-182) and index. |
| Summary |
Despite new technologies, people do not always find information readily. This book is about the role of information services and digital literacies in the age of the social web. Do people still need help in finding the information they need, and if so, why? What can new tools and techniques make easier? Who needs help, and with what? The author provides an alternative perspective for understanding the context of information services and digital literacy and argues that a central problem in the age of the social web and the culture of participation is that we do not know the premises of how we know, and how ways of interacting with information affect our actions and their outcomes. Information seeking and finding is always a question of crossing and expanding boundaries; between our earlier experiences and the unknown. We may not yet be well enough acquainted with the landscape of digital information to understand the following: how we know; where the boundaries lie; how to cross them; and what consequences our actions have. |
| Note |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on June 18, 2013). |
| Contents |
Cover; Information Services and Digital Literacy: In search of the boundaries of knowing; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1Introduction; 2Knowing what we know; The economy of ordinary knowledge; Boundaries of knowing; Conclusions; 3Information services and digital literacy; Information services; Digital literacy; Conclusions; 4Technologies of abundance; Networking; Personal information technology; Usability; Convergence; The consequences of technology; Conclusions; 5The culture of participation; Communal and individualist participation: 'talko' work and 'broadcast yourselfism' |
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Commercialism and freedomRoles and rules of participation; Economy of participation and non-participation; Conclusions; 6The 'new' user; Learned or born; Behaving differently with information; Reading differently; Users and non-users; Identity; The making of a 'new' user; Conclusions; 7Information; The form of information; The emergence of information; Qualitative and computational viewpoints; A pig in a poke?; Abundance and scarcity; Conclusions; 8Information services and digital literacy as boundary objects; The pieces that do not fit; Across the boundaries; References; Index. |
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Digital media.
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Information services.
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Information literacy.
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Information Services |
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Médias numériques. |
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Services d'information. |
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Culture de l'information. |
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Digital media |
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Information literacy |
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Information services |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Huvila, Isto. Information services and digital literacy. Oxford, UK : Chandos Pub., 2012 1843346834 (OCoLC)813004486 |
| ISBN |
9781780633497 (electronic bk.) |
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1780633491 (electronic bk.) |
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