TY - GEN
T1 - The Role of Information Literacy in the Creative Economy
AU - Cavalheiro, Suellen
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements. This work has received financial support from Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Creative economy
KW - Digital information literacy
KW - Information behaviour
KW - Information literacy
KW - Social networking platform
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85128777072&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1_22
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1_22
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85128777072
SN - 9783030998844
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 253
EP - 264
BT - Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era - 7th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2021, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Kurbanoğlu, Serap
A2 - Špiranec, Sonja
A2 - Ünal, Yurdagül
A2 - Boustany, Joumana
A2 - Kos, Denis
PB - Springer
T2 - 7th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2021
Y2 - 20 September 2021 through 23 September 2021
ER -