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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zapata, Cristian Berrío

Titel

Entre la alfabetización informacional y la brecha digital: Reflexiones para una reconceptualización de los fenómenos de exclusión digital/Between information literacy and the digital divide: Exploring a reconceptualization of the digital exclusion phenomenon

Ist Teil von

• Revista interamericana de bibliotecología, 2012-01, Vol.35 (1), p.39

Ort / Verlag

Medellín: Universidad de Antioquía

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article analyzes the evolution of the concepts I-literacy, E-literacy, informational alphabetization (ALFIN as in Spanish) and Digital Divide, to find a common ground to complement conceptually the measuring of the divide. The convergence process between I-Literacy and E-Literacy has been retrieved, reaching the final concept of informational alphabetization (ALFIN as acronym of the Spanish expression "ALFabetizacion INformacional"). To propose its differentiation into three levels: the basic level of verbal-technological codification, second level for meta-analysis, and upper level for ethical-critical action. This proposal aims to rethink the digital divide, raising questions about the meaning of measurement, and the necessary precautions to avoid confusing measurement with assimilation. The author concludes that measuring these meta-analysis and ethical-critical action skills is the advisable way to build a metric for the digital divide. The author warns about the possibility of finding a second-order divide much larger and complex than the access divide.