http://www.bibsonomy.org/burst/user/avivagabriel/saturatedBibSonomy BuRST Feed for /user/avivagabriel/saturated2008-08-21T13:07:03+02:00Citation only.http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2ec964ecf9b62e04791aea4022f41dea5/avivagabrielavivagabriel2007-11-20T18:17:02+01:00disadvantaged employment roles uninformed overload advantage freelancers ignorant capital synthesizing employees education disadvantage educators literacy saturated opportunity training saturate cognitive uneducated sociological mediate social-capital access Information excessive knowledge-based economy socioeconomic role socioeconomics undereducated illiterate careers teachers earnings illiteracy overwhelming empower thinking overwhelm economics intelligence trainers knowledge ignorance cognition educate information-based opportunities socialcapital saturation freelance knowledge-economy underemployed sociology empowerment jobs society societal entrepreneurial status entrepreneurs train <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 522003disadvantaged employment roles uninformed overload advantage freelancers ignorant capital synthesizing employees education disadvantage educators literacy saturated opportunity training saturate cognitive uneducated sociological mediate social-capital access Information excessive knowledge-based economy socioeconomic role socioeconomics undereducated illiterate careers teachers earnings illiteracy overwhelming empower thinking overwhelm economics intelligence trainers knowledge ignorance cognition educate information-based opportunities socialcapital saturation freelance knowledge-economy underemployed sociology empowerment jobs society societal entrepreneurial status entrepreneurs train 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{"}.