Voyage Across a Constellation of Information: Information Literacy in Interest-Driven Learning Communities

By Crystle Martin

What do orcs, elves, and information literacy have to do with each others? Find out in Voyage across a Constellation of Information as we take an in-depth look at information literacy practices (how people find, evaluate, and use information) in the massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft and its online community. This book teases out real-world information literacy practices by following players as they solve their information needs through collective activity, relying on and building a set of individual and collective practices within the online community. Voyage across a Constellation of Information offers educators, information professionals, and researchers an opportunity to get an inside look at the new practices of digital spaces, and lays the groundwork for inclusion of these practices into 21st-century education.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 143311805X
• ISBN13: 9781433118050
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 143 Pages