As a part of CUNY’s Open Educational Resources initiative, a Fellow with CUNY’s Library Information Literacy Advisory Committee (LILAC) worked to develop a public repository of teaching materials, compiled from all of the distinct CUNY branches. While organizing the teaching materials, it was discovered that there was no record of information literacy scholarship published by CUNY researchers, including recently published theses on media literacy, digital literacy, and critical pedagogy. The committee felt that there was cause for a review of recent scholarship. What you will find in this review is a compilation of new scholarship in the fields of information literacy, media literacy, and digital literacy, produced by CUNY researchers since the COVID-19 pandemic. The literature review is composed of three elements:
Annotated Bibligraphy
The annotated bibliography contains the citations and abstracts of all work related to the chosen search terms. Searching Academic Works, Manifold, and EBSCOHost Academic Search the following terms were used:
“information literacy”
“media literacy”
“digital literacy”
These were then isolated as disciplines on Academic Works in order to capture the ways materials are being aggregated. On Manifold, these search terms were used as well, alongside the compilation of articles written by CUNY researchers for CUNY’s Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. The author determined that it would be beneficial to include articles that dealt with the subject indirectly, even if it had not appeared in the keyword search. In EBSCOHost, these search terms were paired with “CUNY” in order to isolate scholarship written specifically by CUNY researchers. Many of these were duplicates to pieces stored in Academic Works, and is thus marked as such and not duplicated.
Literature Review:
The literature review makes an assessment of the state of published scholarship by CUNY researchers regarding information literacy, as well as recommendations for further research. Since the constellation of projects being developed under the tent of the CUNY Open Publishing Initiative continue to develop, it is suggested that this book be updated by LILAC periodically, and that the next Fellow remix and reuse this literature review for further commentary. The contents upon this first iteration only cover the period 2018-2024. It is likely that the assessment will change as new and old materials are added.