Establishing Twenty-First-Century Information Fluency

Authors

  • Lisa O’Connor
  • Jennifer Sharkey

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/rusq.53n1.33

Abstract

Technology cannot be separated from its social context; rather, they are mutually occurring phenomena, intertwined with what is often distinguished as the sociocultural, political, economic, or scientific milieu.

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