Library and Media Roles in Information Hygiene and Managing Information
Seiten
2022
Business Science Reference (Verlag)
978-1-7998-8713-3 (ISBN)
Business Science Reference (Verlag)
978-1-7998-8713-3 (ISBN)
Analyses the concept of information hygiene from the perspectives of media and library science, ICT, and records and archival science experts. The book identifies and analyses challenges and opportunities for information science practitioners and media institutions in the fight against information disorder.
Despite the proliferation of smart technologies, the challenges of information hygiene continue to wreak havoc on the information landscape, hence the need to explore and analyze how such a phenomenon can be handled. This book will explore the concept of information hygiene in a time when citizens are deluged with an avalanche of information from all angles, especially in the COVID-1i pandemic and infodemic era. Information hygiene refers to the experiences to the experiences of information users in an era of information overabundance. If not handled well, it becomes an infodemic. It is upon information and media practitioners to build a capacity among citizens to become conscious consumers and generators of information.
While recognizing the convergence of disciplines namely media, library science, records management, and ICTs, this book analyzes the concept of information hygiene from the perspectives of media and library science, ICT, and records and archival science experts. It will identify and analyze challenges and opportunities for information science practitioners and media institutions in the fight against information disorder. This book also explores the unhygienic practices in the information value change. Information hygiene is critical if the world is to overcome the challenges of overabundance and information in the current dispensation.
Despite the proliferation of smart technologies, the challenges of information hygiene continue to wreak havoc on the information landscape, hence the need to explore and analyze how such a phenomenon can be handled. This book will explore the concept of information hygiene in a time when citizens are deluged with an avalanche of information from all angles, especially in the COVID-1i pandemic and infodemic era. Information hygiene refers to the experiences to the experiences of information users in an era of information overabundance. If not handled well, it becomes an infodemic. It is upon information and media practitioners to build a capacity among citizens to become conscious consumers and generators of information.
While recognizing the convergence of disciplines namely media, library science, records management, and ICTs, this book analyzes the concept of information hygiene from the perspectives of media and library science, ICT, and records and archival science experts. It will identify and analyze challenges and opportunities for information science practitioners and media institutions in the fight against information disorder. This book also explores the unhygienic practices in the information value change. Information hygiene is critical if the world is to overcome the challenges of overabundance and information in the current dispensation.
Collence Takaingenhamo Chisita, University of South Africa, South Africa Alexander Madanha Rusero, Africa University, Zimbabwe Ngoako Solomon Marutha, University of South Africa, South Africa Josiline Phiri Chigwada, Chinhoyi University of Technology, Zimbabwe Oluwole Olumide Durodolu, Department of Information Science, University of South Africa, South Africa
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.12.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | e-Book Collection - Copyright 2022 |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 279 mm |
| Gewicht | 287 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7998-8713-8 / 1799887138 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7998-8713-3 / 9781799887133 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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