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Clarence Maybee

Information Literacy and the Shaping of Reality

Is information literacy (IL) capable of enabling people to effectively use information in the age of AI? The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) into the mainstream has been even more disruptive than previous technological advancements, such as the World Wide Web or social media, and in some ways has fostered much disorder and uncertainty within the world of information. While new IL models and tools are being developed to address AI, they have tended to treat AI-generated information similarly to how earlier IL models provided checks and balances for considering human-created information sources and tools. Continuing to enable effective use of information, IL needs to keep pace with evolving ideas of AI-generated information and its effects on the human beings that interact with it.

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Sheila Webber

Information Literacy in a Time of Polycrisis

You know that polycrisis isn’t just an academic obsession when the accountants start saying it’s a thing. In a document that mentions polycrisis 84 times, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) identifies that understanding “the interconnectedness of external factors such as climate change, nature, or inequality, and seeing the patterns of change and the feedback loops between the factors” is essential for developing a sustainable business model.

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Mishia Anjeline Angeles

From For You Page to Public Knowledge: How TikTok Shapes Student News

TikTok started as a place for fun videos, but for many students it has become a source of news. On the For You Page, a breaking headline can appear right after a dance trend, showing how algorithms now decide what we see. This makes news quick and easy to access, but it also blurs the line between fact and opinion. For Filipino youth, TikTok is more than entertainment: it’s shaping how our generation learns about the world.

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Chirag Shah

Ship It, Then Apologize: We Can Do Better Than This for AI Advancements

Three days. That’s how long Fable 5 lasted before the U.S. government ordered Anthropic to switch it off worldwide, citing a vaguely described “jailbreak” and an export control directive broad enough to sweep in Anthropic’s own employees abroad. But the recall is only half the story: Anthropic had also moved fast, pushing its most capable model to the public within months of keeping its predecessor restricted to vetted partners. From Gemini’s image generator to Tay to GPT-4o’s sycophancy rollback, this is a pattern we keep repeating, and the people who pay for it are never the ones who decided to ship.

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Shagun Jhaver

Users’ Perspectives on Content Moderation of Web Search Autocomplete Suggestions

The prospect of moderating Autocomplete suggestions raises a range of ethical, technical, and political questions, such as how to distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate suggestions, who should have the power to make such distinctions, and how these decisions should be communicated to end-users. This article takes a user-centered approach to interrogating these questions. By conducting semi-structured interviews with 20 regular users of search platforms, I examine how users make sense of Autocomplete moderation, what concerns they have about its procedures, and how they seek to assert greater agency within the process.

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Elaine Kong

Beyond “Check the Source”: Information Literacy for Health Decisions in the Age of AI

For decades, the golden rule of information literacy was simple: check the source. Who wrote the article? When was it published? Does the URL end in .gov or .edu? Those questions still matter, but in today’s digital ecosystem, they are no longer enough. Modern users don’t just read static webpages; they navigate a chaotic blend of search engine snippets, algorithmic social feeds, influencer testimonials, and AI-generated summaries. In high-stakes arenas like personal health, evaluating a single “source” is no longer the primary task. The real challenge is making sense of an entire information environment.

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Andrew Walsh

Neurodiverse Perceptions of Information Literacy

In many academic and professional settings, IL is treated as something people either possess or lack. Once someone is qualified or trained, they are often assumed to be information literate by default. In contrast, we believe that becoming information literate in the workplace is a continuous, effortful, and highly contextual process, particularly for neurodivergent people, for example, for autistic librarians in the workplace.

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Azeez Adeoye

The Art of Scholarly Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Assessing, Organising, and Using Academic Literature

Research is a lifelong intellectual endeavour that transcends academic qualifications, professional status, and social background. Whether one is an undergraduate student, postgraduate scholar, healthcare practitioner, policymaker, entrepreneur, volunteer, or independent learner, research remains indispensable to growth, innovation, and societal advancement. Indeed, every meaningful improvement in human endeavour is rooted in the ability to seek, evaluate, and apply credible knowledge. Research, therefore, is not merely an academic requirement; it is a systematic and continuous process of building upon existing knowledge to solve emerging challenges and expand the frontiers of understanding.

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