Commodification of the Information Profession: A Critique of Higher Education Under Neoliberalism
| Main Authors: | Lawson, Stuart, Sanders, Kevin, Smith, Lauren |
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Pacific University Library
, 2015
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http://eprints.rclis.org/25080/1/JLSC-2015-Commodification.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/25080/ |
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Lawson, Stuart Sanders, Kevin Smith, Lauren |
| title |
Commodification of the Information Profession: A Critique of Higher Education Under Neoliberalism |
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Pacific University Library |
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2015 |
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AZ. None of these but in this section |
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http://eprints.rclis.org/25080/1/JLSC-2015-Commodification.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/25080/ |
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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. |
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