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ERIC Number: EJ1455976
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 19
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A Mindfulness-Based Information Literacy Framework for the Current Information Environment
Journal of Information Literacy, v18 n2 p37-55 2024
This paper proposes a new information literacy (IL) framework, based around mindfulness, that is suited for the contemporary informational environment. This framework results from a weeklong interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars, theorising and incorporating mindfulness as a significant aspect of healthy information seeking and interpretation. Our framework builds on existing IL frameworks but encourages information consumers to recognise their emotional responses and political biases while providing reminders that information always contains political components. By doing so, this framework updates existing IL guidelines to better reflect the current era of rising polarisation and affective media consumption. We present a mindfulness framework for IL that combines mindfulness practices with critical thinking in addressing the emotional impact of mis/disinformation and conspiracy theories on the current information society.
CILIP Information Literacy Group. 7 Ridgmount Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7AE, United Kingdom. e-mail: JIL@cilip.org.uk; Web site: https://journals.cilip.org.uk/jil/index
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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