Information Literacy and Social Media: Empowered Student Engagement with the ACRL Framework

Abstract

Michele Santamaría, learning design librarian at Millersville University, and Nicole Pfannenstiel, who teaches college composition, draw on their interdisciplinary collaboration, which began on X (formerly Twitter), to argue for a new approach to information literacy instruction. In Information Literacy and Social Media: Empowered Student Engagement with the ACRL Framework, Santamaría and Pfannenstiel make a compelling case for why and how educators should move beyond traditional “walled gardens” of peer-reviewed scholarship (p. vii) to engage students with the complex, risky, and vital “rainforest” (p. x) of social media when teaching information literacy.