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Towards the Resistant Reading of Information: Resistant Spectatorship in the Information Age

Tewell, Eamon Towards the Resistant Reading of Information: Resistant Spectatorship in the Information Age., 2016 UNSPECIFIED thesis, Long Island University, Brooklyn. [Thesis]

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The theory of resistant spectatorship posits that an individual interacting with media may have the agency to oppose, reject, or reassemble the message of the information they encounter, instead of to passively accept it. This study puts resistant spectatorship in conversation with libraries and critiques in examining one aspect of a dominant information discovery system, Google Search, from a "resistant" position. Additionally, this study argues that within academic libraries the practice of critical information literacy, a pedagogical approach aligned with the ideas of resistant spectatorship, is an ideal mode for encouraging students to become resistant readers of information in its increasingly corporate-mediated forms.

Item type:	Thesis (UNSPECIFIED)
Keywords:	media studies, Google, search engines, information literacy
Subjects:	A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. > AB. Information theory and library theory. B. Information use and sociology of information > BD. Information society.
Depositing user:	Eamon Tewell
Date deposited:	04 Nov 2016 22:45
Last modified:	08 Nov 2016 03:25
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/30212

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