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Commodification of the information profession : a critique of higher education under neoliberalism
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dc.contributor.author | Lawson, Stuart | |
dc.contributor.author | Sanders, Kevin | |
dc.contributor.author | Smith, Lauren | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-08T13:30:05Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-02-08T13:30:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-03-10 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Lawson , S , Sanders , K & Smith , L 2015 , ' Commodification of the information profession : a critique of higher education under neoliberalism ' , Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication , vol. 3 , no. 1 , eP1182 . https://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1182 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2162-3309 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 257643206 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 0737497f-a2c0-4723-bb98-0d1c76ce9a23 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-1972-8953/work/53857109 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/17022 | |
dc.description.abstract | The structures that govern society’s understanding of information have been reorganised under a neoliberal worldview to allow information to appear and function as a commodity. This has implications for the professional ethics of library and information labour, and the need for critical reflexivity in library and information praxes is not being met. A lack of theoretical understanding of these issues means that the political interests governing decision-making are going unchallenged, for example the UK government’s specific framing of open access to research. We argue that building stronger, community oriented praxes of critical depth can serve as a resilient challenge to the neoliberal politics of the current higher education system in the UK and beyond. Critical information literacy offers a proactive, reflexive and hopeful strategy to challenge hegemonic assumptions about information as a commodity. | |
dc.format.extent | 24 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication | en |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2015 Lawson et al. This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) | en |
dc.subject | Z665 Library Science. Information Science | en |
dc.subject | LB2300 Higher Education | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | Z665 | en |
dc.subject.lcc | LB2300 | en |
dc.title | Commodification of the information profession : a critique of higher education under neoliberalism | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. University of St Andrews | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1182 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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