RasGuides: Information Literacy: Information: Creation & Value

Research Process and Information Currency

Research Process
TEDx Talk- Information Currency

Napa Valley College. (2015, March). Information formats. Retrieved from https://www.napavalley.edu/Library/Pages/InformationFormats.aspx

TEDx Talks. (2012, November 5). Bitnificance: The rise of information currency [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om3TueEHpFw

In this video explore the social and financial value of data for everything from social media content to health care. Learn about "data mining" key dimensions and how, when and where the scope and scale of data provides value on return.

Know About Copyright

You want to know more about copyright in education. (2014). Retrieved from https://langwitches.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/copyright-infographic1.png

Creation and Value

Part of information literacy involves the process of researching, creating, revising, and sharing information. It is also important to note that this process can vary from person to person and there is no one right process to follow. Research in the way that works best for you!

The Information Literacy Framework states:

Learners who are developing their information literate abilities do the following:

Are inclined to seek out characteristics of information products that indicate the underlying creation process
Value the process of matching an information need with an appropriate product
Accept that the creation of information may begin initially through communicating in a range of formats or modes
Accept the ambiguity surrounding the potential value of information creation expressed in emerging formats or modes
Resist the tendency to equate format with the underlying creation process
Understand that different methods of information dissemination with different purposes are available for their use

Information has great value. It educates and influences our understanding of the world. The production and dissemination of information has many legal and socioeconomic interests. In a world where information is often viewed as free, the concept of intellectual property can be challenging to grasp.

The value of information can be recognized in these contexts:

Accessing information
Commodification of personal information
Publishing practices
Intellectual property laws

The Information Literacy Framework states:

Learners who are developing their information literate abilities do the following:

Respect the original ideas of others
Value the skills, time, and effort needed to produce knowledge
See themselves as contributors to the information marketplace rather than only consumers of it
Are inclined to examine their own information privilege

Does Information Have Value?
This concept is so uncontroversial and commonplace that it’s difficult to pinpoint just how it’s “troublesome” in the sense of being a threshold concept. But it’s not too difficult to show that it’s troublesome in other ways…
If Information Wants to Be Free... Then Who's Going to Pay for It?
The notion of free information, our government's proper role in distributing free information, and the future of scholarly publishing in a world of free information . . . these are the issues that are floating around in my head. My goal here is to tell you where my thinking is only at this moment, for I reserve the right to continue thinking and developing new permutations on this mentally challenging theme.
Information Doesn't Want to By Free: Laws for the Internet Age
Excerpt from the book "Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age" by Cory Doctorow.
Placing Value on Information
Society regards information as a commodity and the possession of it as an asset. Economists would like to account for information in the same way as physical assets, but no discipline has given us an accepted model for such treatment. Disciplines regard information differently, and it is more difficult to develop systems to measure information than physical commodities. The price system has been used to assign value to information, but does it provide the best means? Can librarians plan for the future, justifying increasing expenditures to their funding agencies, in the absence of a meaningful information measurement scheme?
The Economy of Ideas
A framework for patents and copyrights in the Digital Age. (Everything you know about intellectual property is wrong.)

Information dissemination. (2014). Retrieved from https://www.lookfordiagnosis.com/mesh_info.php?term=Information+Dissemination&lang=1

Psychology of Sharing Information

Deng, S., Lin, Y., Liu, Y., Chen, X., & Li, H. (2017). How Do Personality Traits Shape Information-Sharing Behaviour in Social Media? Exploring the Mediating Effect of Generalized Trust. Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 22(3). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1156382