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Information Literacy as an Ethical Experience

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Information Experience and Information Literacy (ECIL 2023)

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The purpose is to present ethical challenges of information literacy and introduce the concept of ethical information literacy as an ethical experience. We ask the question: Which ethical components are decisive for ethical information literacy based on information experience? We apply content analyses of selected models of information literacy and information experience and results of a Delphi study on information ethics based on a consensus of 19 Slovak and Czech experts (a survey) and 6 experts (an online discussion.) Results are visualized in conceptual models of ethical issues of digital information. The final model of ethical information literacy experience represents ethical factors of ethical sensitivity, moral imagination, social and intercultural contexts and rules, tensions between people and technologies, values of truth and utility. We recommend inclusion of the ethical components into new models of ethical information literacy experience and apply them in further research and design of value-sensitive digital services.

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This paper was prepared as part of the project VEGA 1/0360/21 Social representations of information ethics in digital information revolution. The author expressess her gratitude to all participants and collaborators of the Delphi study.

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  1. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye

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  3. Université Gustav Eiffel, Paris, France

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  4. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye

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  7. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Steinerová, J. (2024). Information Literacy as an Ethical Experience. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., et al. Information Experience and Information Literacy. ECIL 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2043. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52998-6_10

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