<DIV>Presenting a new approach for understanding how information services help and hinder people in becoming informed, <I>Information Services and Digital Literacy </I>scrutinizes the role of information services and digital literacies in the age of the social web. In this book Isto Huvila closely examines the ways that interacting with information affects people’s actions. Among the topics he explores are: How to conceptualize information services and digital literacy using the economy of “ordinary” knowledge as a framework, The consequences of abundant technology, Networking, with a look at participation versus nonparticipation, commercialism, and freedom, The different behaviors toward knowledge exhibited by the “born digital” or “new” user, How information itself, and its abundance and scarcity, affects the ways in which human know things.</div>