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Public Libraries, Digital Literacy and Participatory Culture
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McShane, Ian – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2011
In recent years public libraries have experimented with user-generated or community-contributed content through the interactive tools of Web 2.0. For some commentators this not just establishes a new relationship between libraries and their publics, but signals the end of information hegemony and an "expert paradigm". Such claims need to…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Technological Literacy, Access to Information, Library Development