The Role of Information Literacy in the Creative Economy

Suellen Cavalheiro

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1_22

The Role of Information Literacy in the Creative Economy

Suellen Cavalheiro^*

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School of Business and Economics

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Abstract

The amount of digital information consumed in today’s society directly affects the importance of information literacy skills for contemporary workers. This paper aims to demonstrate that the information literacy skills of creative economy professionals have become a fundamental necessity and should be addressed from broad perspectives. To answer, “how creative economy workers obtain information for their business activities?” we performed 40 semi-structured interviews that were transcribed and thematically analysed using qualitative data analysis software (i.e., Nvivo 12). The results show the significant role of information literacy skills of these professionals when locating relevant information for their businesses. Also, creative activities require a vast volume of information from a large variety of sources, thus intensifying the importance of information literacy skills of these workers.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era - 7th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2021, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Serap Kurbanoğlu, Sonja Špiranec, Yurdagül Ünal, Joumana Boustany, Denis Kos
Publisher	Springer
Pages	253-264
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9783030998844
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1_22
Publication status	Published - 2022
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	7th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2021 - Virtual, Online Duration: 20 Sept 2021 → 23 Sept 2021

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	1533 CCIS
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)	1865-0937

Conference

Conference	7th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2021
City	Virtual, Online
Period	20/09/21 → 23/09/21

Keywords

Creative economy
Digital information literacy
Information behaviour
Information literacy
Social networking platform

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Cavalheiro, S. (2022). The Role of Information Literacy in the Creative Economy. In S. Kurbanoğlu, S. Špiranec, Y. Ünal, J. Boustany, & D. Kos (Eds.), Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era - 7th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2021, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 253-264). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1533 CCIS). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1_22

Cavalheiro, Suellen. / The Role of Information Literacy in the Creative Economy. Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era - 7th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2021, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Serap Kurbanoğlu ; Sonja Špiranec ; Yurdagül Ünal ; Joumana Boustany ; Denis Kos. Springer, 2022. pp. 253-264 (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

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Cavalheiro, S 2022, The Role of Information Literacy in the Creative Economy. in S Kurbanoğlu, S Špiranec, Y Ünal, J Boustany & D Kos (eds), Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era - 7th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2021, Revised Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1533 CCIS, Springer, pp. 253-264, 7th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2021, Virtual, Online, 20/09/21. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1_22

The Role of Information Literacy in the Creative Economy. / Cavalheiro, Suellen.
Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era - 7th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2021, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Serap Kurbanoğlu; Sonja Špiranec; Yurdagül Ünal; Joumana Boustany; Denis Kos. Springer, 2022. p. 253-264 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1533 CCIS).

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