Lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are experiencing rapid changes in access to and use of new internet and digital media technologies. The purpose of this study was to better understand how younger audiences are navigating traditional and newer forms of media technologies, with particular emphasis on the skills and competencies needed to obtain, evaluate and apply health-related informa...

In today’s information society internet usage and e-literacy become more and more important. However, inequalities in internet usage of different social groups become and stay observable. Here, especially elderly citizens, with an increasing share of population in western societies, are often included from benefits related to information technology and internet usage. One important aspect of lo...

Information Literacy (IL) along with information and communication technology has become significant in library environment. Information literacy in library services is required not only to optimize the use of library resources in teaching, learning and research but also train the users to make them aware about information sources and access authentic information from vast array of electronic i...

This paper explores the problems that Internet users in marginalized populations face at telecenters (Internet public access sites). Using intensive research methods with users and telecenter operators we explored users’ limitations using the Internet. Users are digitally illiterate in two skills: “branching ability” (ability to navigate in a nonlinear environment to find the desired informatio...

Libraries are institutions with an extensive cumulation of specialized knowledge in the field of information systems. They are qualified to participate in the mediation process concerning information literacy. The amount of competencies to be teached requires several lessons which are to be coordinated in content and methodology. Comprehensive models representing the essential structures and fa...

Pre-service teachers who use the Internet both for course preparation and student resources need to be aware of and also help their future students understand the influences under which the Internet operates. In this paper, the authors explore pre-service teachers’ awareness of Internet hegemonies and investigate whether and how this awareness changes after a classroom lesson, activity, and pra...

INTRODUCTION The objective of this cross-sectional study was to examine the nutrition literacy status of adults in the Lower Mississippi Delta. METHODS Survey instruments included the Newest Vital Sign and an adapted version of the Health Information National Trends Survey. A proportional quota sampling plan was used to represent educational achievement of residents in the Delta region. Parti...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how information and communications technology (ICT) literacy skills reflect twenty-first century requirements for researching and communicating information in digital environments. An interactive problem-based, scenario-based, web-based assessment tool, iSkills, has been developed through a broad-based effort to establish standards for performance ...