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Fear of Missing Out, Information Literacy, and Digital Wellbeing

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Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era (ECIL 2021)

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Abstract

Frequency and intensity of usage of Internet resources as such do not improve information literacy. Moreover, Internet users often suffer from the consequences of problematic Internet use and fear of missing out (FOMO). The study explores if there is a dependency between the level of information literacy and the scale of FOMO intensity among the respondents. It is based on the results of the quantitative survey realized on a representative sample of Polish Internet users, concerning the FOMO scale in a population. The analysis includes only the answers related to FOMO, information literacy, and digital wellbeing. It reveals that information literacy as such does not protect against problematic Internet use, on the contrary – sometimes it is a factor contributing to it. There is a need to include a digital wellbeing perspective in information literacy education – to put more attention on attitudes towards the Internet as an environment of everyday life.

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  1. University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

    Małgorzata Kisilowska

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  1. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  3. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

    Yurdagül Ünal

  4. Université Gustave Eiffel, Champs-sur-Marne, France

    Joumana Boustany

  5. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Denis Kos

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Kisilowska, M. (2022). Fear of Missing Out, Information Literacy, and Digital Wellbeing. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Špiranec, S., Ünal, Y., Boustany, J., Kos, D. (eds) Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era. ECIL 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1533. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1_15

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