This book aims to bring forward the role of workplace information literacy as a key condition for successful digitalization or digital transformation in today’s workplace.
1. Advancing Theory on Workplace Information Literacy 2. Literature Review: In Search of the Many Meanings of Information Literacy 3. Digital Literacy in a Post-Digital Era: Rethinking 'Literacy' as Sociomaterial Practice 4. Methodological Choices of Information Literacy at the Workplace: Qualitative, Quantitative or Mixed Methods? 5. Investigating Information Seeking and Information Sharing Using Digital Trace Data 6. Making Do with Limited Transparency of Sensitive Information in Secretive Organizations: Collective Information Literacy Through Hinting 7. Information Literacy Competencies for Career Transitions in the Digital Age 8. The Importance of Information Literacy for Work Satisfaction in a World-Wide-Workplace Context9. Entrepreneurs' Digital Information Sources Selection: A Perspective to Impact of Information Literacy and Generational Differences 10. Conclusion: Workplace information literacy as the literacy of digital workplace
Gunilla Widén, is Professor of Information Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics, Åbo Akademi University where she researches in the areas of information behaviour, information literacy, and knowledge management.
Jose Teixeira works at the Department of Information Systems at Åbo Akademi. His main research interests include open-source software, open-hardware, open-coopetition, open-innovation, and platform ecosystems.