Information Literacy and the Digitalisation of the Workplace

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This book explores the transformative impact of digitalisation on the workplace, emphasising how information literacy is crucial for navigating new work processes, collaborations, and organisational shifts. It draws on diverse case studies, from nuclear power plants to open-source communities, to highlight the evolving information environments shaped by digital technologies. Combining conceptual insights with practical examples, it offers a comprehensive view of how employers and employees can adapt to and thrive amid digital change.
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Ideal for researchers, educators, and professionals interested in workplace studies, information literacy, and digital transformation in organisational contexts.

This book examines the role of Information literacy in the digital workplace context. It discusses a set of information handling skills and competencies that employees and managers must need to excel at a workplace undergoing digital transformation.

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Digitalisation has had an overwhelming impact on the workplace in recent years, making it more associable, editable, interactive, programmable, traceable, communicable, and distributable. However, this change brings substantial shifts in work processes. New technologies almost always lead to new work arrangements and collaborative engagements, thereby disrupting the information environment and altering equilibria at work.

Information Literacy and the Digitalisation of the Workplace aims to highlight the role of workplace information literacy as a crucial factor for successful digital transformation in today's work environment. Featuring contributions from leading scholars, the book examines the multifaceted role of workplace information literacy in organisational operations and its influence on the digitalisation process, considering both employer and employee perspectives.

The book provides lessons learned from studying workplace information literacy across diverse empirical settings, such as a nuclear power plant, an open-source software community, and a university, among others. It presents methodological and conceptual advancements for anyone exploring information literacy in the modern, digitalising workplace. The text extends the conversation on the impact of digitalisation on individuals and organisations and guides researchers by compiling conceptual, methodological, and procedural insights on the effects of digitalisation on the contemporary workplace from an information-centred viewpoint.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781783305797

Publisher: Facet Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 June 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Facet Publishing

Contributors:

Edited by Gunilla Widen
Edited by Jose Teixeira

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 159.0mm

Height: 238.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 222

Collections

Business & Entrepreneurship Business Innovation & Creativity Business Leadership & Management Education & Reference Non-Fiction Science & Nature Technology & Digital Transformation in Business

About the Author

Gunilla Widén is Professor of Information Studies and Vice Rector for Education at Åbo Akademi University (ÅAU), Finland, and holds the title of Docent in Information Management at University of Tampere, Finland. Her research interests have focused on the role of information as a resource in organisations as well as in everyday life. She has led several large projects financed by the Academy of Finland, such as the impact of information literacy in the digital workplace (2016–20). She is currently leading research on trust in information, part of the project Diversity, Trust and Two-Way Integration (Mobile Futures) funded by the Strategic Research Council (SRC), Academy of Finland (2021–26), and on cultural policy decision-making, the case of Helsinki Central Libary Oodi, in the PolyCul project funded by the Norweigan Research Council (2021–24).

José Teixeira defended his doctoral dissertation entitled ‘Coopetition in an Open Source Way’ in 2018. With an educational background in both computer science and management, he worked in the industry developing and deploying information systems at Wipro, Tesco, Airbus and Nokia. His research interests cover open-source software, coopetition, social network analysis, information practices and information literacy. José communicates his research results both to the Information Systems and the Library and Information Science research communities.