Information Literacy and the Digitalisation of the Workplace

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 comes with substantial alterations to ways of working. New technologies almost always translate into new work processes, work arrangements, collaborative engagements, and thus disrupt the information environment and consolidate equilibria at work.

Information Literacy and the Digitalisation of the Workplace aims to highlight the role of workplace information literacy as a crucial condition for successful digitalisation or digital transformation in today’s workplace. Featuring contributions from leading scholars, it examines the multifaceted role of workplace information literacy in organisational operations and its significance in the digitalisation process, taking into account the perspectives of both employer and employee.

The book includes lessons learned from investigating workplace information literacy across various empirical domains, such as a nuclear power plant, an open-source software community, and a university, among others. It outlines methodological and conceptual developments for anyone exploring information literacy across the modern workplace undergoing digitalisation, extending the debate on the impact of digitalisation on individuals and organisations. This book will guide researchers interested in the digital workplace by aggregating conceptual, methodological, and procedural knowledge on the impacts of digitalisation on the contemporary workplace from an information-centered perspective.