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Senior Citizens, Media and Information Literacy and Health Information

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This study examined the development of information seeking and evaluation of the usefulness and reliability of information, in three information channels, Media, Health specialist and Internet, in the period 2002 to 2012. Random samples were used, participants were categorized into two groups, 60 to 67 years old and 68 years or older. Data analysis was performed with ANOVA (one-way). Health specialists were considered most useful and reliable, although rated lower in 2012 than in 2002. Usefulness and reliability of information in the Media was comparable in 2012 and 2002. Information seeking on the Internet had increased since 2002. The younger group considered the information less useful and reliable in 2012 than in 2002. For the older group the evaluation was identical in 2012 to what it was in 2002. Thus, information seeking on the Internet had increased since 2002 but participants had also become more critical of the information.

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The study was funded by the University of Iceland Research Fund.

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  1. Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, University of Iceland, Gimli V/Sæmundargötu,101, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Ágústa Pálsdóttir

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  1. Dept. of Information Management, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Türkiye

    Serap Kurbanoglu

  2. DICEN IDF EA 7369, Université Paris Descartes DICEN IDF EA 7369, Paris, France

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  3. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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  4. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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  5. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  6. School of Information, The University of Texas School of Information, Austin, TX, USA

    Loriene Roy

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Pálsdóttir, Á. (2015). Senior Citizens, Media and Information Literacy and Health Information. In: Kurbanoglu, S., Boustany, J., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Roy, L. (eds) Information Literacy: Moving Toward Sustainability. ECIL 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 552. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28197-1_24

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