Information obesity

• Main Author: Whitworth, Andrew (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Chandos 2009
• Series: Chandos information professional series
• Subjects: Information literacy > Study and teaching; Information technology > Study and teaching
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• Physical Description: xix, 231 pages illustrations 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-226) and index
• ISBN: 9781843344490; 1843344491 (pbk.)

This book explores information literacy and ICT skills education from the point of view of social and political theory. The author incorporates theories to argue why the idea of information literacy is so important in the 21st century, and also to develop teaching strategies to this end. He argues that only through expanding the range of information literacy education taking it beyond just formal school and university education and into homes, friendship networks and workplaces can an effective educational response to information technology in the 21st century be constructed.