Hi everyone!!
My name is kevin glass, or kg, and I am in my second semester of MLIS at the SJSU iSchool. I have an academic background in critical theory/contemporary philosophy, historical research, as well as film and performance studies.
I was drawn to MLIS studies through my intellectual curiosity of how knowledge is produced in our society through documents and information, and how the institutions and systems that legitimize (or don’t legitimize) documents and information play a role in that process.
I see the online and digital space as an increasingly complex zone for the interplay of these ideas. The proliferation of the ability to distribute information and generate documents/digital objects has radically altered the knowledge regimes/cultural hierarchies of power that previously ordered and controlled the flow of information and documents, and the reality consensus that came with it.
Given this “infodemic” we currently inhabit, I am looking for what’s next, what are the new ways in which we’ll reconstitute reality consensus and find mutual agreement on what is legitimate or not. I think the concept of hyperlinked libraries, of accelerated access to a wide-range of materials and perspectives through networked systems is a solution with tremendous potential. Something that has the quality of the constantly connective and branching ways of interacting with information that has taken shape in internet users, but is backed by the ethos of library systems seems the perfect way to rebuild. In other words, can hyperlibraries build hyperliteracy?
Excited to find out!
-kg-