Information Literacy and the Digitaluzation of the Workplace

Informationen zum Autor Gunilla Widén , is Professor of Information Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics, Åbo Akademi University where she researches in the areas of information behaviour, information literacy, and knowledge management. Jose Teixeira works at the Department of Information Systems at Åbo Akademi. His main research interests include open-source software, open-hardware, open-coopetition, open-innovation, and platform ecosystems. Zusammenfassung This book examines the role of Information literacy in the digital workplace context. It discusses a set of information handling skills and competencies that employees and managers must need to excel at a workplace undergoing digital transformation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Advancing Theory on Workplace Information Literacy 2. Literature Review: In Search of the Many Meanings of Information Literacy 3. Digital Literacy in a Post-Digital Era: Rethinking 'Literacy' as Sociomaterial Practice 4. Methodological Choices of Information Literacy at the Workplace: Qualitative, Quantitative or Mixed Methods? 5. Investigating Information Seeking and Information Sharing Using Digital Trace Data 6. Making Do with Limited Transparency of Sensitive Information in Secretive Organizations: Collective Information Literacy Through Hinting 7. Information Literacy Competencies for Career Transitions in the Digital Age 8. The Importance of Information Literacy for Work Satisfaction in a World-Wide-Workplace Context 9. Entrepreneurs' Digital Information Sources Selection: A Perspective to Impact of Information Literacy and Generational Differences 10. Conclusion: Workplace information literacy as the literacy of digital workplace

Product details

• Authors: Jose Teixeira, Gunilla Widen
• Assisted by: Jose Teixeira (Editor), Teixeira Jose (Editor), Gunilla Widen (Editor), Widen Gunilla (Editor)
• Publisher: Facet Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781783305797
• ISBN: 978-1-78330-579-7
• No. of pages: 222
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Information Management, Knowledge Management, Business innovation, Information theory, Library, archive and information management, Library, Archive & Information Management, IT, Internet and electronic resources in libraries, IT, Internet & electronic resources in libraries