II Konferencja Naukowa : Nauka o informacji (informacja naukowa) w okresie zmian, Warszawa, 15-16.04.2013 r. Instytut Informacji Naukowej i Studiów Bibliologicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski The 2nd Scientific Conference : Information Science in an Age of Change, April 15-16, 2013. Institute of Information and Book Studies, University of Warsaw

1. Information culture as a social cultural
practice: (re)defining the concept in the
context of digital convergence
Yolande Maury
Université d’Artois /IUFM
Laboratoire GERIICO (Lille 3)

2. PURPOSE

3. • to contribute to the definition of information
culture in the context of digital convergence
• which kinds of knowledge are necessary to
study, live, and evolve in a world in
permanent change ?
• what culture (information culture) is
necessary to become « member » of this
« world » ?

4. 1. CONTEXTS

5. “Technological Research Team in
education (ERTé)”
• formed in 2006, Lille 3 (A. Béguin dir.)
• to propose solutions for improving information
culture education in school and at university
• to observe information culture in the process of
being built, day after day, between formal and
non-formal practices

6. Culture
• “everything a person needs to know to live in
a particular society”
• “a vast symbolic set, including knowledge,
ideas, thoughts, rules, common to a plurality
of social actors, considered in a given space at
a given time” (Rocher, 1968)

7. Information culture
• « a set of shared skills and knowledge, social
patterns of behaviors, norms and values,
involved in defining the importance of
information, and allowing a wise and ethical
use of this information »

8. 2. BEYOND INFORMATION, A SOCIAL
DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE

9. Information culture in a dialogical and
inclusive way
culture of belonging of the actors
culture in a more academic sense

10. Information is seen as a process
• considered as a relationship, in an act of
communication
• object of negotiations, bearer of knowledge
• made possible by document objects, and it
happens on the conditions that actors react to
these objects
→ not ignore human and social dimensions

11. Information culture between formal
and non-formal practices
• new resources
• introduce uncertainty in school
• mixture of improvisation and adaptation, but
also source of misunderstandings
→ need of an accompanied conduct to leave the
« space of doing » and to construct meaning

12. 3. A PARTICIPATORY CULTURE IN
THE NEW INFORMATION
ECOSYSTEM

13. • new forms of publication and exchange
=
new ways of organizing knowledge and new
forms of "recorded knowledge"
• communication relations and role of actors
are displaced
• deep changes in thinking information culture

14. Information culture …
• is participatory and contributive culture
• developed at the articulation between "the
space of knowledge" and "the space of being
in the world“
→ re-conceptualization of information
culture

15. CONCLUDING PERSPECTIVES

16. • A logic of continuity in (re)defining
information culture
• (Re)defining in a more cultural and holistic
way