Dominant COVID Narratives and Implications for Information Literacy Education in the “Post-Pandemic” United States

Abstract

In Brief: Conflicting narratives about the COVID-19 pandemic, including dominant ones that minimize the continued harms of COVID, illustrate the complexities and the importance of information literacy. More specifically, these narratives point to the value of critical information literacy, which asks us to interrogate the ways that power and social structure influence what information is created and circulated and how we interact with and respond to it as individuals and collectives.

Keywords

• media literacy
• covid-19
• critical information literacy
• library instruction