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Critical Health Literacy and Critical Information Literacy: Bridging Research Discourses from Different Domains

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

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The purpose of this paper was to carve out “critical dimensions” in the concepts of health literacy and information literacy and contribute to the conceptualization of critical health information literacy, by analyzing and bridging standpoints of two research domains - health literacy and information literacy. The current context of a public health crisis accompanied by information overload additionally underlines the need to enhance our understanding of the critical health information literacy construct. Participatory information environments have made a fundamental change in the conceptual understanding of critical health information literacy and shifted the approach from one-dimensional, functional, individual skills to multidimensional, collective and distributed approach that takes into account the social, cultural, economic and political context.

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  1. University Hospital for Infectious Diseases “Dr. Fran Mihaljević”, Zagreb, Croatia

    Arijana Pavelić

  2. Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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  2. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  3. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

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

    Joumana Boustany

  5. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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Pavelić, A., Špiranec, S. (2022). Critical Health Literacy and Critical Information Literacy: Bridging Research Discourses from Different Domains. 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_5

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