Hicks, Alison;
Lloyd, Annemaree;
(2022)
Agency and liminality during the COVID-19 pandemic: Why information literacy can’t fix vaccine hesitancy.
Journal of Information Science
10.1177/01655515221124003.
(In press).
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Abstract
This paper employs a sociological and dialogical information perspective to identify what shape information literacy practice takes for people who are hesitant about the COVID-19 vaccine. An information perspective places information and people’s relations with information at the centre of the inquiry. The study carried out 14 semi-structured interviews with UK adults who had not yet received or taken up their invitation to have the COVID-19 vaccine. Outcomes of this study suggest that information literacy practices related to vaccine hesitancy emerged through the liminal space and in relation to agentic performance, which was catalysed through engagement with experiential, corporeal and social information. This study has implications for the teaching of information literacy, in particular the idea that being informed is an affirmative action that will automatically empower learners to make appropriate choices
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Agency and liminality during the COVID-19 pandemic: Why information literacy can’t fix vaccine hesitancy |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/01655515221124003 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515221124003 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). Request permissions for this article. |
| Keywords: | Information literacy, COVID-19, vaccine hesitancy, liminality, agency |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Information Studies UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10153858 |
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