"I Found It on Facebook": Social Media and the ACRL Information Literacy Standards

Type of Presentation

Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)

Target Audience

Higher Education

Presenter Information

Teresa Grettano, The University of Scranton, PA
Donna Mazziotti, The University of Scranton, PA

Location

Room 212

Proposal

See presentation description.

Short Description

In March of this year, Facebook outpaced Google to become the most visited website in the U.S., solidifying the centrality of social media in our students’ lives. In this presentation, an English professor and university librarian will illustrate how users on social media websites like Facebook are practicing traditional information literacy skills while developing new ones. The presenters will speculate the implications of these evolving user behaviors and attitudes for the Information Literacy Standards.

Keywords

Facebook, Google, Social media, Information literacy

Publication Type and Release Option

Presentation (Open Access)

Recommended Citation

Grettano, Teresa and Mazziotti, Donna, ""I Found It on Facebook": Social Media and the ACRL Information Literacy Standards" (2010). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 30.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2010/2010/30