New articles: Multiliteracies; agents for healthcare

The latest issue of open access journal Information Research (Vol. 28 No. 4, 2023) includes:
- Librarians’ and teachers’ conceptions of multiliteracies in the context of Finnish curriculum reform by Siinamari Ylivuori, Anu Ojaranta "Individual and group interviews are analysed to explore the conceptions of teachers and librarians on multiliteracies. ... The results indicate that there are differences in conceptualising multiliteracies and in the confidence in defining the concept between teachers and librarians. In addition, the concept of multiliteracies is seen as both a skills set and a pedagogical tool. ... There is a need for conceptual clarification of multiliteracies both in grassroots-level work and in the curriculum context to avoid multiple interpretations of the concept and to guide how multiliteracies could be pedagogically implemented."
- Critical information quality dimensions of conversational agents for healthcare by Caihua Liu, Guochao Peng, Shufeng Kong, Chaowang Lan, Haoliang Zhu (gives results from a questionnaire survey "Understandability and trustworthiness were the two top concerns for the information quality of the agents from the participants’ perspective in this study. ")
Go to https://informationr.net/infres/issue/view/28-4
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