Voyage across a Constellation of Information: Information Literacy in Interest-Driven Learning Communities (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies)

✍ Scribed by Crystle Martin

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 158
Edition: New
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

What do orcs, elves, and information literacy have to do with each others? Find out in Voyage across a Constellation of Information as we take an in-depth look at information literacy practices (how people find, evaluate, and use information) in the massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft and its online community. This book teases out real-world information literacy practices by following players as they solve their information needs through collective activity, relying on and building a set of individual and collective practices within the online community. Voyage across a Constellation of Information offers educators, information professionals, and researchers an opportunity to get an inside look at the new practices of digital spaces, and lays the groundwork for inclusion of these practices into 21st-century education.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Chapter One. The Affinity Space as an Information Source: The Constellation of Information 1
Chapter Two. Information Literacy: A Mechanism for Charting the Constellation 15
Information Literacy 17
Issues in Information Literacy Research 22
Information Seeking 23
Online Reading Comprehension 25
Discussion of Information Literacy 26
Online Communities as Affinity Spaces 28
Discourse and Online Communities 28
Affinity Spaces and Communities of Practice 29
New Literacies 31
Fan Communities 32
MMOs and Affinity Spaces 33
Collective Intelligence in Online Communities 34
Online Communities Discussion 37
Developing the Navigation Device 40
Chapter Three. Tools and Methods for Creating the Compass and Navigating the Constellations 43
First an Introduction to WoW 43
Tools and Methods for Creating the Compass and Navigating the Constellation 45
Information Horizon Maps 46
Qualitative Coding 50
Chapter Four. An Individual’s Map to Navigating the Constellation 53
Information and Identity 69
Chapter Five. Synchronous and Asynchronous Information as a Part of the Constellation 71
Finding a Way through the Jungle Canopy 72
A Clearing in the Canopy 84
Coding 85
Through the Clearing 87
Synchronous Information Literacy 87
Asynchronous Information Literacy 91
A New Compass to Navigate the Constellation of Information 95
Chapter Six. Collective Intelligence: Navigating the Constellation 99
What Is Collective Intelligence? 100
Participatory Culture and Collective Intelligence, a New Hybrid 104
Collective Intelligence Operationalized: Applying Collective Intelligence to the Constellation of Information 107
How Is the Constellation Navigated by Collective Intelligence? 108
Collective Intelligence on the Rise 109
What Does Collective Intelligence Look Like in the Constellation? 115
The New Collective Intelligence: Collective Information Literacy 117
Chapter Seven. From a Constellation to a Galaxy 119
Notes 129
Bibliography 131
Index 139

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