The purpose of this article is to investigate high school students' information practices, their views on source criticism and source trust, and whether it is possible to implement altmetric indicators as tools during the source criticism-analysis of new information related to school assignments and theses. The empirical data is collected through s...
Information literacy and Media and Information Literacy is presented as an effective weapon against misinformation and fake news. But this ignores the fact that 50 years of psychological research has shown that the human brain really is not equipped to fight off misinformation with logic and rational arguments. Systematically flawed reasoning such ...
This study aims to highlight the collaboration between high school teachers and their school librarians in media and information literacy instruction. An inspection of the factors that influence the structure and level of the collaboration will be presented. This was done to create an understanding of which profession most appropriately should carr...
Förmågan att kunna avgöra om en källa är autentisk och tillförlitlig blir allt viktigare. Möjligheten att använda AI-genererade texter ställer stora krav på kritiskt förhållningssätt och medför ökade risker för spridning av desinformation och misinformation. Falsk information kan skapa osäkerhet hos medborgarna och forskning visar att ju mer männis...
In this study, we have used a survey to investigate students in higher education and their self-efficacy abilities in Media and information literacy (MIL). We have investigated whether the students felt that the MIL-related education, offered by the libraries, helped them develop their abilities when they took part in it. The survey also asked if t...
The abiblity to find, critically evaluate and use information in a conscious and responsible way is a skill that is increasingly important in tje high paced flow of digital information. This belongs to the school librarian's area of expertise and efforts are being made to involve school librarians to a greater degree when it comes to the teaching o...
Purpose: Our main task is to find out how the Swedish government deals with media and information literacy (MIL) among the general public, and which key actors it identifies in this process. More specifically we want to know whether public libraries are considered to be such key actors – which is the common view within library and information scien...
The purpose of this bachelor´s thesis is to create an understanding and reflection about how librarians at a small public library work to counter disinformation in their professional practice. Similarly, we students, aim to understand how disinformation impacts library´s democratic mission, and how they promote media- and information literacy. The ...
Cilj dela je bila priprava gotovega živila iz hitro pokvarljivih mediteranskih surovin in testiranje protimikrobnega delovanja bioaktivnih izvlečkov in vitro in v modelih živila - homogenatu in namazu iz jajčevca. Testirali smo protimikrobno aktivnost fenolnega izvlečka lista robide (Rubus fruticosus), izvlečka odpadnega destilata navadnega brina (...
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine a number ofaspects of the Swedish public library system in relation to aproposed future assignment in the Swedish total defenseorganization. The first aspect is if there exist a consensus amongemployees in the Swedish public library system on what such atotal defense assignment could be. The second and...
