On Information Privilege

“On Information Privilege” posted by Char Booth on her blog: info-mationional: on technology, media literacy, and librarians who t-c-b. The concept of information privilege situates information literacy in a sociocultural context of justice and access. Information as the media and messages that underlie individual and collective awareness and knowledge building; privilege as the advantages, opportunities, rights, and affordances granted by status and positionality via class, race, gender, culture, sexuality, occupation, institutional affiliation, and political perspective. Read the entire post at: https://infomational.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/on-information-privilege/