Information services and digital literacy as boundary objects
Abstract:
In this final chapter of the book, the notions of information services and digital literacy are revisited in order to see how they link to the emerging boundaries of knowing, and what their strengths and shortcomings are. The central difference between information services and digital literacy is that information services are about mediating meaning, whereas digital literacy is a meta-process of mediating the meaning of the mediation of meaning. They are approaches to help others to know more. The major impediment of the two approaches is their given nature, which is often very different from the boundaries perceived by an ordinary knower. They are based on the idea of ...
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