Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This paper proposes a new information literacy (IL) framework, based around mindfulness, that is suited for the contemporary informational environment. This framework results from a weeklong interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars, theorising and incorporating mindfulness as a significant aspect of healthy information seeking and interpretation. Our framework builds on existing IL frameworks but encourages information consumers to recognise their emotional responses and political biases while providing reminders that information always contains political components. By doing so, this framework updates existing IL guidelines to better reflect the current era of rising polarisation and affective media consumption. We present a mindfulness framework for IL that combines mindfulness practices with critical thinking in addressing the emotional impact of mis/disinformation and conspiracy theories on the current information society.
Source: Journal of Information Literacy
DOI: 10.11645/18.2.636
Authors: Matthew N. Hannah, Jennifer Hoewe, Hanna Sistek, Taeik Kim, Dan Goldwasser
Institutions: Purdue University West Lafayette, University of Missouri
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: Purdue University
OpenAlex ID: W4404858103