Information Electracy: Developing a Category System for the Image

Type of Presentation

Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)

Target Audience

Higher Education

Presenter Information

Sean Morey, University of Florida

Location

Room 217

Proposal

See presentation description.

Short Description

This presentation looks at the need for a new category system that is appropriate for new media. As Gregory L. Ulmer points out, the image disseminated by new media produces affects; they produce intensities in the body. Information literacy as it pertains to Ulmer's concept of electracy, then, requires a category system based not on Aristotleian essences, but on the information stored within the body. Being able to retrieve and make sense of information based on affect helps create a democracy that is feasible within the society of the spectacle.

Keywords

Information literacy, New media, Category systems, Electracy

Publication Type and Release Option

Presentation (Open Access)

Recommended Citation

Morey, Sean, "Information Electracy: Developing a Category System for the Image" (2008). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 41.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2008/2008/41