Information and Learning Sciences: Volume 123 Issue 7/8

Guest editorial: Beyond digital youth: understanding, supporting, and designing for young people’s digital experiences

Katie Davis, Mega Subramaniam

Youth invisible work: the sociocultural and collaborative processes of online search and brokering between adolescents and English-language learning families

Jason Yip, Wendy Roldan, Carmen Gonzalez, Laura R. Pina, Maria Ruiz, Paola Vanegas

This study aims to investigate the collaboration processes of immigrant families as they search for online information together. Immigrant English-language learning adults of…

Smartphones and online search: shifting frames in the everyday life of young people

Cecilia Andersson

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of smartphones among young people in everyday life, focusing on the activity of online search. This paper addresses the…

Young children’s interest-driven information practices

Sarah Barriage

This study aims to explore young children’s information practices within the context of their individual interests, examining children’s interest-related information activities…

The role of parents, other adults, peers and informal learning communities in shaping positive social media use in adolesent girls

Linda Charmaraman, Catherine Grevet Delcourt, Sidrah Durrani, Jyontika Kapoor, Amanda M. Richer, Le Fan Xiao

This study aims to introduce the concept of communities of social media practice where more experienced users provide guidance to female novice users, enacting a form of…

Think before you share: building a civic media literacy framework for everyday contexts

Ellen Middaugh, Sherry Bell, Mariah Kornbluh

In response to concerns about fake news (Allcott et al., 2019) and polarization (Wollebaek et al., 2019), youth media literacy interventions have emerged to teach strategies for…

The 5Ds of privacy literacy: a framework for privacy education

Priya C. Kumar, Virginia L. Byrne

Existing privacy-related educational materials are not situated in privacy theory, making it hard to understand what specifically children learn about privacy. This article aims…

Connected portfolios: open assessment practices for maker communities

Anna Keune, Kylie Peppler, Maggie Dahn

In contrast to traditional portfolio practices that focus on the individual, this paper aims to reenvision portfolio practices to encompass sociocultural aspects of learning by…

Children learning to sketch: sketching to learn

Ekta Shokeen, Nihal Katirci, Caro Williams-Pierce, Elizabeth Bonsignore

This study aims to understand children’s sketching behavior while they engage in interest-driven design activities. Particularly, the authors examine their information sharing…

“That’s what techquity is”: youth perceptions of technological and algorithmic bias

Merijke Coenraad

Computing technology is becoming ubiquitous within modern society and youth use technology regularly for school, entertainment and socializing. Yet, despite societal belief that…