Radical information literacy : reclaiming the political heart of the IL movement / Andrew Whitworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitworth, Andrew, author.

Series:

Chandos information professional series.

Chandos Information Professional Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information literacy.

Media literacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 233 pages).

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Chandos Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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

Contents:

Deconstructing IL. Basic concepts and terminology

The early days of IL

The diversity of IL

The institutionalising of IL

Reconstructing IL. Colonising IL

Mikhail Bakhtin and IL

Practising IL

Reclaiming IL.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781780634296

1780634293

OCLC:

889955879