The Intertwinements of Information and Literacy in Contemporary Culture

Abstract

This paper exposes the relations between information and literacy in context of contemporary culture. By exploring the perspective, reading culture is the main involvement in today’s indication. The analysis of this article includes popular culture in literacies in which it actually involves such tensions than merely definitions. The tensions are about existence vs essence, paradoxes vs consistencies, and enlightenment vs paranoia. Later, the text as the widened matters of language puts more approaches towards recent culture of sharing information. Therefore, the condition of hoaxes indeed is inevitable and undeniable, since abundant flowing information will always result to surplus of meanings as well. In conclusion, literacy should be used as matter of finding truth than effort of merely justification. The freedom of meanings should be emphasized furthermore to attain the truth as matter of process in various matters of literacies.
Keywords Information, Literacy, Popular Culture, Reading Culture, Sharing Culture