'Informed societies: why information literacy matters for citizenship, participation and democracy edited by Stéphane Goldstein

Hello,

You might be interested in the recently-published book edited by Stéphane Goldstein on 'Informed societies: why information literacy matters for citizenship, participation and democracy'.

There are excellent chapters written by three members of the Information Literacy Community of Practice for Scotland: John Crawford, Bill Johnston, Konstantina (Dina) Martzoukou. Others equally exciting by Geoff Walton, Andrea Baer, Andrew Whitworth, Gianfranco Polizzi, Stephan Lewandowsky, Jesús Lau and Alton Grizzle, Reggie Raju, Glynnis Johnson and Zanele Majebe, Jamie Barker, Matthew Pointon, Martin Turner and Andrew Wilkinson, Hilary Yerbury and Maureen Henninger.

The title gives a pretty good idea of what the book is about, and through its dozen chapters, it explores how information literacy can help citizens play an informed role in society and its democratic processes. The authors are experts, from across the globe, in multiple fields - including political science, pedagogy, information science and psychology, as well as information and digital literacy - providing an original and multi-disciplinary perspective to an increasingly topical subject. 

'Informed societies' is published by Facet, and is available at http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=304226#.Xh4EsfzgqUl . A pre-print of my introductory chapter, which explains the rationale for the subject-matter, is available via my blog at https://www.informall.org.uk/blog/informed-societies/ .

Stéphane is happy to answer any questions - please feel free to get in touch if you'd like to!

Kind regards,

Stéphane Goldstein

Director of InformAll

email: sg@informall.org.uk

Skype: stephanegoldstein

Twitter: stephgold7

website: www.informall.org.uk