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The Political Economy of Information Literacy : = A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of UNESCO's Media and Information Literacy : Policy & Strategy Guidelines.

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Title/Author:	The Political Economy of Information Literacy :/
Reminder of title:	A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of UNESCO's Media and Information Literacy : Policy & Strategy Guidelines.
Author:	Hook, Sheril Jane.
Description:	1 online resource (270 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-05A.
Subject:	Information science. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798380833288

The Political Economy of Information Literacy : = A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of UNESCO's Media and Information Literacy : Policy & Strategy Guidelines.
Hook, Sheril Jane.

The Political Economy of Information Literacy :A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of UNESCO's Media and Information Literacy : Policy & Strategy Guidelines. - 1 online resource (270 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation explores the relevance of information literacy to information policy. While information policy makers have been concerned about access to information through ICTs, there has not been a robust consideration for the role of information literacy education in information policy. With the emergence of the term in 1974, information literacy has been discursively linked to ICTs. This study uses a political economy of information lens to examine the discursive relationship between the increasing centrality of ICTs to the global economy and the development of information literacy policy and strategy guidelines at the supranational level. It examines how the production, distribution, and use of information is presented in UNESCO's 2013 publication Media and Information Literacy: Policy & Strategy Guidelines. Critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics are employed to analyse how the words information and technology are constituted and reproduced in the document. The study illustrates that the growing global interest in developing both information literacy policy and programming relates to, is influenced by, and mirrors ideological narratives of technologies as forms of empowerment that ultimately embed information literacy in a capitalist mode of production. The study questions the suggestion that media and information literacy are solutions to reduce gender inequality, ensure democratic engagement, and empower people in social decision-making. The concluding chapter demonstrates a disjuncture between the problems and underlying issues the authors suggest media and information literacy education can solve for all people with the social, political, and economic realities in 10 sub-Saharan Africa countries. Autonomist Marxism is used in the concluding chapter to identify and amplify various sub-Saharan African efforts to resist and struggle against a Western imposed digital capitalism. This resistance is demonstrated in how leaders in these countries describe their information needs, limit the use of ICTs in education, and develop their intellectual property laws, particularly laws related to traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions. The dissertation encourages librarians and information policy makers to consider and engage with the political economy of information literacy-a definition of which is proposed.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798380833288Subjects--Topical Terms:

561178
Information science.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Autonomist MarxismIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

The Political Economy of Information Literacy : = A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of UNESCO's Media and Information Literacy : Policy & Strategy Guidelines.
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