Teen Content Creators: Experiences of Using Information to Learn

Harlan, Mary Ann; Bruce, Christine; Lupton, Mandy

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Title

Teen Content Creators: Experiences of Using Information to Learn

Author(s)

• Harlan, Mary Ann
• Bruce, Christine
• Lupton, Mandy

Issue Date

2012

Keyword(s)

Information literacy

Abstract

As access to networked digital communities increases, a growing number of teens participate in digital communities by creating and sharing a variety of content. The affordances of social media—ease of use, ubiquitous access, and communal nature—have made creating and sharing content an appealing process for teens. Teens primarily learn the practices of encountering and using information through social interaction and participation within digital communities. This article adopts the position that information literacy is the experience of using information to learn. It reports on an investigation into teens’ experiences in the United States, as they use information to learn how to create content and participate within the context of social media. Teens that participate in sharing art on sites such as DeviantArt, website creation, blogging, and/or posing edited videos via YouTube and Vimeo, were interviewed. The interviews explored teens’ information experiences within particular social and digital contexts. Teens discussed the information they used, how information was gathered and accessed, and explored the process of using that information to participate in the communities.

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ISSN

0024-2594

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/31890

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2012.0001

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Copyright 2012 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

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