Hicks, Alison;
(2024)
The negative spaces of information literacy: An alternative research agenda.
Journal of Information Literacy
, 18
(1)
pp. 123-129.
10.11645/18.1.598.
(In press).
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Abstract
Suggestions that information literacy(IL)is being employed in subversive or unorthodox activities, including criminal or anti-democratic aims, have largely been dismissed as evidence for the need for more ILinstruction. Possible solutions to situations in which librarian-promoted ILskills advance subversive activities, which include a renewed focus on standardisation or virtue epistemology, introduce additional issues, such as whose values would prevail. In contrast, engagement with IL’s negative space, a design term that refers to the aspects of a composition that surround the main focal object, provides an opportunity to learn about what has been obscured through our focus on more socially acceptable goals—and develop a richer, more responsive understanding of practice.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The negative spaces of information literacy: An alternative research agenda |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.11645/18.1.598 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.11645/18.1.598 |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | Anti-establishment, democracy, negative space |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Information Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10192906 |
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