Information literacy: a contradictory coupling
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In Brief
Recounting the conflicting discursive histories of “information” and “literacy”, Pawley argues that librarianship needs to center more critical analysis of how knowledge and meaning are made when readers make sense of decontextualized information within intersecting systems of power relations.
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“Information literacy: a contradictory coupling”
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By: Christine Pawley
Started: 2026-04-12
Finished: 2026-04-12
Amount read: 30 of 30 pages
Genre: theory, article, and criticism
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Randall, Ryan P. “Information literacy: a contradictory coupling”. Published May 19, 2025. https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/notes/Reading/Articles/pawley-information-literacy-contradictory-coupling. Accessed on .