Voyage across a Constellation of Information : Information Literacy in Interest-Driven Learning Communities.
Title:
Voyage across a Constellation of Information : Information Literacy in Interest-Driven Learning Communities.
Author:
Martin, Crystle.
ISBN:
9781453911174
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (158 pages)
Series:
New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies ; v.57
New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies
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.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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