This book aims to bring forward the role of workplace information literacy as a key condition for successful digitalization or digital transformation in todays workplace.
Digitalization has had an overwhelming impact on the workplace in recent years, making it more associable, editable, interactive, programmable, traceable, communicable and distributable. But this change comes with substantial changes to ways of working. New technologies almost always translate into new work processes, work arrangements, collaborative engagements and thus disrupt the information environment and consolidate equilibra at work. This book aims to bring forward the role of workplace information literacy as a key condition for successful digitalization or digital transformation in today's workplace. Featuring contributions from leading scholars, it examines the multifaceted role of workplace information literacy in organizational operations and its role in the digitalization process, taking into account the role and perspectives of employer and employee.
This book aims to bring forward the role of workplace information literacy as a key condition for successful digitalization or digital transformation in todays workplace.
Digitalization has had an overwhelming impact on the workplace in recent years, making it more associable, editable, interactive, programmable, traceable, communicable and distributable. But this change comes with substantial changes to ways of working. New technologies almost always translate into new work processes, work arrangements, collaborative engagements and thus disrupt the information environment and consolidate equilibra at work. This book aims to bring forward the role of workplace information literacy as a key condition for successful digitalization or digital transformation in todays workplace. Featuring contributions from leading scholars, it examines the multifaceted role of workplace information literacy in organizational operations and its role in the digitalization process, taking into account the role and perspectives of employer and employee.
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This book would be instructive and thought-provoking to professionals and researchers in workforce development, information science, and education. -- Michelle Thornton * Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association * Teixeiras interests in computer science and management, and research and development strategy, and Widens involvement with information literacy, policy and information service provision are evident in this examination of how digitalisation relates to IL: it is not just about work, workplaces, and efficiencies, but is also highly relational and contextual. -- Michelle Thornton * Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association *
Introduction: Advancing Theory on Workplace Information Literacy
Farhan Ahmad and Gunilla Widén
1 Literature Review: In Search of the Many Meanings of Information Literacy
José Teixeira and Muhaimin Karim
2 Digital Literacy in a Post-Digital Era: Rethinking Literacy as
Sociomaterial Practice
Mika Mård and Anette Hallin
3 Methodological Choices of Information Literacy at the Workplace:
Qualitative, Quantitative or Mixed-Methods?
Shahrokh Nikou and Farhan Ahmad
4 Investigating Information Seeking and Information Sharing Using Digital
Trace Data
José Teixeira
5 Making Do with Limited Transparency of Sensitive Information in Secretive
Organisations: Collective Information Literacy Through Hinting
Inti José Lammi and Anette Hallin
6 Information Literacy Competencies for Career Transitions in the Digital
Age
Marina Milosheva, Hazel Hall, Peter Robertson and Peter Cruickshank
7 The Importance of Information Literacy for Work Satisfaction in a
World-Wide-Workplace Context
Angela Djupsjöbacka, Jannica Heinström and Eva Österbacka
8 Entrepreneurs Digital Information Sources Selection: A Perspective on the
Impact of Information Literacy and Generational Differences
Thao Orrensalo, Malin Brännback and Shahrokh Nikou
9 Conclusion: Workplace Information Literacy as the Literacy of the Digital
Workplace
Isto Huvila, Gunilla Widén, Farhan Ahmad and José Texeira
Gunilla Widén is Professor of Information Studies and Vice Rector for Education at Åbo Akademi University (ÅAU), Finland, and holds the title of Docent in Information Management at University of Tampere, Finland. Her research interests have focused on the role of information as a resource in organisations as well as in everyday life. She has led several large projects financed by the Academy of Finland, such as the impact of information literacy in the digital workplace (201620). She is currently leading research on trust in information, part of the project Diversity, Trust and Two-Way Integration (Mobile Futures) funded by the Strategic Research Council (SRC), Academy of Finland (202126), and on cultural policy decision-making, the case of Helsinki Central Libary Oodi, in the PolyCul project funded by the Norweigan Research Council (202124).
José Teixeira defended his doctoral dissertation entitled Coopetition in an Open Source Way in 2018. With an educational background in both computer science and management, he worked in the industry developing and deploying information systems at Wipro, Tesco, Airbus and Nokia. His research interests cover open-source software, coopetition, social network analysis, information practices and information literacy. José communicates his research results both to the Information Systems and the Library and Information Science research communities.
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