2010 Conference Archive
What Do We Mean By "Information Literacy"?
Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)
Target Audience
Other
Copyright
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Location
Room 1002
Proposal
See presentation description.
Short Description
“Information literacy” means more than evaluating websites; it means more than citing sources; it means more than knowing scholarly from popular. Fundamentally, the trope of “information literacy” responds to the demand to produce, on the one hand, citizens capable of normative rational discourse, and on the other hand, workers at home in the ubiquitous medium of the document. The aim of this presentation is to untangle some of the contradictions latent in the coupling of these demands, and to gesture toward a more rhetorically and materially aware approach to the study of information literacy.
Keywords
Information literacy, Normative rational discourse
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Smith, Dolsy, "What Do We Mean By "Information Literacy"?" (2010). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 19.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2010/2010/19
What Do We Mean By "Information Literacy"?
Room 1002
See presentation description.
