Information services and digital literacy : in search of the boundaries of knowing / Isto Huvila.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huvila, Isto.

Series:

Chandos Information Professional Series

Chandos information professional series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital media.

Information literacy.

Information services.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Chandos Publishing, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Despite new technologies, people do not always find information with ease. Do people still need help in finding the information they need, and if so, why? What can be made easier with new tools and techniques?Information Services and Digital Literacy is about the role of information services and digital literacies in the age of the social web. This title provides an alternative perspective for understanding 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

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'

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 20, 2013).

ISBN:

9781780633497

1780633491

OCLC:

865332922