The Privacy Literacy Field Guide

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The Privacy Literacy Field Guide provides timely, pertinent, scholar-informed, practical guidance for information professionals. The content is situated by the growing dynamic scholarship that the authors have championed over the last decade, specifically on privacy literacy. This title outlines theory, research, and pedagogy, resulting in practical applications for teaching privacy literacy as an emerging literacy in the discipline of information literacy. The book can be used as a stand-alone resource, as a primary source, or as a textbook for information literacy curriculum courses specifically addressing privacy literacy. * Karen F. Kaufmann, Assistant Professor of Instruction, University of South Florida iSchool, USA * In an era where surveillance and automation threaten so much of what makes us human, this book encourages us to be brave and authentic in supporting privacy education. The Privacy Literacy Field Guide will help any library worker build the confidence to get started on principled privacy pedagogy. The workbook style, with many opportunities for reflection, makes it both personal and manageable. I was floored by the sheer number of creative workshop ideas, incorporating design justice and consent principles to support a variety of learners and privacy needs, as well as incentives to help people stay engaged. The authors are well-informed in privacy scholarship and cite many sources for further reading. A highly impressive, holistic, down-to-earth, funny, and comprehensive work from two trusted experts in the field! * Alison Macrina, Executive Director, Library Freedom Project, USA * The Privacy Literacy Field Guide offers an ideal balance between the practical for realistic implementation, and the theoretical for critical foundations supporting the authors' recommendations. This well-researched book goes beyond a general introduction and offers solid pedagogical design guidance, assessment applications, outreach frameworks, advisement for privacy-in-the-disciplines, and considerations for one's own time and labor to engage in this work. This publication fills a gap in greater support for privacy literacy in libraries and I can see it being an essential companion that library workers will turn to again and again -- Nicole Pagowsky * Librarian and Liaison Program Lead, University of Arizona, USA *