Subjects
information literacy, Reddit, authority, threshold concepts, cognitive authority
Document Type
Research Article
Abstract
This paper provides an overview of how the social news site Reddit can be used as an example of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education threshold concept “Authority is Constructed and Contextual.” It posits that the construction and context of authority in the sense of Wilson’s concept of cognitive authority is in the inherent structure of Reddit and that students can benefit from an example that easily links their personal and academic lives—a connection not always made when discussing authority in peer-reviewed publications or databases.
DOI
10.15760/comminfolit.2019.13.2.2
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/30850
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
White, A. M. (2019). Reddit as an Analogy for Scholarly Publishing and the Constructed, Contextual Nature of Authority. Communications in Information Literacy, 13 (2), 147-163. https://doi.org/10.15760/comminfolit.2019.13.2.2