Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Notes on the authors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Information Literacy in the Digital Age: Why Critical Digital Literacy Matters for Democracy
- 2 The Discourses of Power, Information and Literacy
- 3 What Intellectual Empathy Can Offer Information Literacy Education
- 4 The ‘Post-Truth’ World, Misinformation, and Information Literacy: a Perspective From Cognitive Science
- 5 Media and Information Literacy: Intersection and Evolution, a Brief History
- 6 Information Literacy and National Policy Making
- 7 Information Literacy as a Growth Pillar for a Fledgling Democracy
- 8 Information literacy and the Societal Imperative of Information Discernment
- 9 Libraries and Democracy: Complementarity in a Regime of Truth
- 10 Scottish Public Libraries Welcome Syrian New Scots: a Transition from Being a Refugee to Becoming an Active Part of the Community
- 11 Information Literacy, Lifelong Learning and the Needs of an Ageing Population
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Notes on the authors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Information Literacy in the Digital Age: Why Critical Digital Literacy Matters for Democracy
- 2 The Discourses of Power, Information and Literacy
- 3 What Intellectual Empathy Can Offer Information Literacy Education
- 4 The ‘Post-Truth’ World, Misinformation, and Information Literacy: a Perspective From Cognitive Science
- 5 Media and Information Literacy: Intersection and Evolution, a Brief History
- 6 Information Literacy and National Policy Making
- 7 Information Literacy as a Growth Pillar for a Fledgling Democracy
- 8 Information literacy and the Societal Imperative of Information Discernment
- 9 Libraries and Democracy: Complementarity in a Regime of Truth
- 10 Scottish Public Libraries Welcome Syrian New Scots: a Transition from Being a Refugee to Becoming an Active Part of the Community
- 11 Information Literacy, Lifelong Learning and the Needs of an Ageing Population
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Informed SocietiesWhy information literacy matters for citizenship, participation and democracy, pp. 229 - 235Publisher: FacetPrint publication year: 2019