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Appropriating Facebook : Enacting Information Literacies

In English

Författare

  • Fredrik Hanell

Summary, in English

The aim of this paper is to describe and analyse the repurposing of Facebook into a tool for learning in teacher training, and how information literacies are enacted in the process.



The study is informed by a socio-cultural view on information literacy which implies that learning and literacies are situated, tool-based practices. An ethnographic study of a Facebook Group with two hundred Swedish teacher trainees and two educators is conducted. Five semi-structured interviews contextualize and validate the online material. 201 conversations from the Group during April and May 2012 are analysed using the theoretical concept appropriation and the empirical lens of information literacy.



The Facebook Group can be appropriated as a problem-solving tool and a relation-building tool. Depending on the mode of appropriation, different information literacies including different conceptions of credibility are enacted in the Facebook Group.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2014

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

5-35

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Human IT

Volym

12

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Högskolan i Borås

Ämne

  • Information Studies

Nyckelord

  • information literacy
  • social network sites
  • socio-cultural theory
  • appropriation
  • higher education
  • teacher training

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Information Studies
  • Information Practices: Communication, Culture and Society

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1402-1501