http://www.bibsonomy.org/burst/user/avivagabriel/educationBibSonomy BuRST Feed for /user/avivagabriel/education2008-07-21T00:40:59+02:00Citation only.http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2ec964ecf9b62e04791aea4022f41dea5/avivagabrielavivagabriel2007-11-20T18:17:02+01:00earnings undereducated ignorance empowerment uninformed ignorant roles excessive synthesizing jobs trainers teachers knowledge-economy freelance entrepreneurial saturation role employment educators illiterate opportunities empower underemployed entrepreneurs opportunity Information overwhelm illiteracy knowledge socioeconomic access intelligence socialcapital training saturate uneducated knowledge-based education social-capital overload socioeconomics cognition saturated mediate educate society economy sociology disadvantage status advantage overwhelming capital economics freelancers train thinking careers literacy sociological employees information-based societal disadvantaged cognitive <span style="color:#555555;">J. <a href="http://www.bibsonomy.org/author/Wallis">Wallis</a> </span><em>Library Review</em><em>52(8):369--372</em><em>August2003. </em>Tue Nov 20 18:17:02 CET 2007Library ReviewAugust8369--372Information-Saturated, Yet Ignorant: Information Mediation as Social Empowerment in the Knowledge Economy 522003earnings undereducated ignorance empowerment uninformed ignorant roles excessive synthesizing jobs trainers teachers knowledge-economy freelance entrepreneurial saturation role employment educators illiterate opportunities empower underemployed entrepreneurs opportunity Information overwhelm illiteracy knowledge socioeconomic access intelligence socialcapital training saturate uneducated knowledge-based education social-capital overload socioeconomics cognition saturated mediate educate society economy sociology disadvantage status advantage overwhelming capital economics freelancers train thinking careers literacy sociological employees information-based societal disadvantaged cognitive In our information society, the information citizen must face a variety of challenges in order to make the most of their role in the knowledge economy. The role of information as knowledge capital means that there is a danger of inappropriate commercialisation of information, which can militate against the optimal social use of this resource. Similarly, low levels of information literacy can exclude the individual from full membership of the information society. Information professionals are in a prime position to address these problems, since the information mediator can both act against inappropriate commercialisation of information and offset the social disadvantages of information illiteracy. If the information professional does not rise to the challenge of leadership within the new information order, society becomes {"}information-saturated and simultaneously ignorant{"}.