Information Literacy Through Theory

1. Introduction: Themes, Patterns and Connections

2. Democracy and Information Literacy

3. Information Literacy and the Social: Applying a Practice Theory View to Information Literacy

4. Information Literacy in a Nexus of Practice: a Mediated Discourse Perspective

5. The Radical and the Radioactive: Grasping the Roots of Theoretically Informed Praxis in Brazilian Studies on Critical Information Literacy

6. Locating Information Literacy Within Discursive Encounters: A Conversation with Positioning Theory

7. Plural Agonistics Johanna

8. Critical Literacy and Critical Design

9. Information literacy through an equity mindset

10. Sociomateriality

11. Surfacing the body: Embodiment, Site and Source

12. Variation Theory : Researching Information Literacy Through the Lens of Learning

13. Information Literacy: What Consciousness and Cognition Can Teach Us

14. Information Literacy Theorised Through Institutional Ethnography

15. Conclusion: Alerting us to Difference

Biography

Alison Hicks is Assistant Professor and Programme Director, Library and Information Studies at University College, London (UCL). Her research primarily focuses on how information literacy practices help people to cope with uncertainty, including risk and transition, within academic, health, everyday and work contexts. She is additionally interested in qualitative, visual and participatory information literacy research methods and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Literacy. With a PhD from the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås and an MSIS from the University of Texas, Austin, Alison worked as an academic librarian at the University of Colorado, Boulder and the Inter-American Development Bank for ten years prior to taking up her position at UCL.

Annemaree Lloyd is Professor, Department of Information Studies, University College, London (UCL). Annemaree is a social science researcher who conducts research into information literacies and contemporary information practices in formal and informal learning connected to workplaces, community settings and in education. Her research focuses on the intersection between information, learning, and the performance of practice from theoretical and empirical perspectives. Annemaree is the leader of the FOIL (Forum of Information Literacy) and has published over 100 refereed journal articles, and conference proceedings. She is the author of Information Literacy Landscapes (2010) and The Qualitative Landscape of Information Literacy Research (Facet) and has co-edited several titles focused on information literacy and research methods.

Ola Pilerot is Professor at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS), University of Borås, where he teaches and publishes within the field of information practices. Together with Professor Jutta Haider he leads the research group Information practices and digital cultures at SSLIS. He is widely published in international peer reviewed journals, including Journal of Documentation, Information Research, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Library Trends, and Journal of Librarianship and Information Science.