Health information literacy practices of young bloggers #ecil2018

Anna-Maija Huhta from the University of Oulu reflected on the nature of health literacy research which tend to focus on measuring functional competencies, usually with quantitative methods. This phd study aims to investigate the health information literacy practices of young bloggers with a focus on construction and assessment of cognitive authorities. The theoretical background includes practice theory, and various theories of literacy including health, information, new literacies and cognitive authority (Wilson 1983), which relates to social epistemology. The methodology will be Nexus analysis, which is a form of ethnography which focuses on discourse analysis of social actions in real time. The study will collect data from 8-10 young people who actively produce health related content on social media.