Event title: Searching, shopping, sightseeing: literacies in virtual lives
Venue: Infolit iSchool
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/149/171/21/
Thursday 18 March, UK time 8pm, Second Life Time: 1:00pm (see
http://tinyurl.com/y8ghoer for times elsewhere)
*This is an official event in the ESRC Festival of Social Science (ESRC is the
UK's funding council for social science research) - the only Festival event
being held in SL!*
Researchers in information and digital literacies (Sheila Webber (Sheila
Yoshikawa in SL) and Dr Julia Davies (DrJoolz Smythe in SL) will talk about
their research, with the emphasis on drawing out advice on more virtually
literate approaches to everyday SL.
The session will be chaired by Professor Jackie Marsh, Head of Department in The
School of Education, Sheffield University, UK (Jackie Darkstone in SL).
Sheila Webber is Director of the Centre for Information Literacy Research, a
Senior Lecturer in Sheffield University's iSchool, and an international speaker
on information literacy. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library
and Information Professionals.
Dr Julia Davies is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, Sheffield
University, and co-Director of the Centre for the Study of New Literacies. Her
research focuses on online digital practices and social learning. Her numerous
article and chapter publications include _Pay and Display: The Digital
Literacies of Online Shoppers_ in _Digital Literacies: Concepts, Policies and
Practices_, edited by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel (2008)
ESRC Festival of Social Science: see
http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/esrcinfocentre/fss/default.aspx for
information on the festival and
http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/PO/releases/2010/march/secondlife.aspx
for the ESRC press release on this event
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Sheila Webber
Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield,
211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK
0114 222 2641
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The information literacy weblog - http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/
Sheila Yoshikawa (SL) blog: http://adventuresofyoshikawa.blogspot.com/
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