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“The dearest of our possessions”: Applying Floridi's information privacy concept in models of information behavior and information literacy

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  • David Bawden
  • Lyn Robinson

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This conceptual article argues for the value of an approach to privacy in the digital information environment informed by Luciano Floridi's philosophy of information and information ethics. This approach involves achieving informational privacy, through the features of anonymity and obscurity, through an optimal balance of ontological frictions. This approach may be used to modify models for information behavior and for information literacy, giving them a fuller and more effective coverage of privacy issues in the infosphere. For information behavior, the Information Seeking and Communication Model and the Information Grounds conception are most appropriate for this purpose. For information literacy, the metaliteracy model, using a modification a privacy literacy framework, is most suitable.

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  • David Bawden & Lyn Robinson, 2020. "“The dearest of our possessions”: Applying Floridi's information privacy concept in models of information behavior and information literacy," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 71(9), pages 1030-1043, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jinfst:v:71:y:2020:i:9:p:1030-1043
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.24367
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