Abstract
The structures that govern society’s understanding of information have been reorganised under a neoliberal worldview to allow information to appear and function as a commodity. This has implications for the professional ethics of library and information labour, and the need for critical reflexivity in library and information praxes is not being met. A lack of theoretical understanding of these issues means that the political interests governing decision-making are going unchallenged, for example the UK government’s specific framing of open access to research. We argue that building stronger, community oriented praxes of critical depth can serve as a resilient challenge to the neoliberal politics of the current higher education system in the UK and beyond. Critical information literacy offers a proactive, reflexive and hopeful strategy to challenge hegemonic assumptions about information as a commodity.
Original language | English |
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Article number | eP1182 |
Number of pages | 24 |
Journal | Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication |
Volume | 3 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- scholarly communication
- neoliberalism
- libraries
- information literacy
- higher education
- information