Convenience Trumps Quality: How Digital Natives Use Information [ABSTRACT]
Jinfo Blog
3rd June 2008
By Derek Law
Abstract
With ‘digital natives' beginning to enter the workforce, it's incumbent on information professionals to understand and adapt to their work methodologies in order to maintain relevance. Derek Law posits that this generation's ‘aliteracy' creates an opportunity for information professionals to position themselves as experienced teachers of information literacy.
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With ‘digital natives' beginning to enter the workforce, it's incumbent on information professionals to understand and adapt to their work methodologies in order to maintain relevance. Derek Law posits that this generation's ‘aliteracy' creates an opportunity for information professionals to position themselves as experienced teachers of information literacy.
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This new breed of information user doesn't simply want everything made simple. They have a quite different value structure. On the one hand they want choice, being much less clear that there is right information and wrong information, but at the same time they want selectivity.
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