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www-inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe-org-4674		“Information Has Value”: The Political Economy of Information Capitalism – In the Library with the Lead Pipe			.html	text/html	9173	629	48	Simultaneously, their data is being extracted by numerous social media sites (likely owned by Facebook or Google) and library vendors and publishers (Lamdan, 2019), and their behavior is being manipulated by corporate algorithms seeking profits and political power. The "Information Has Value" frame of the Association of College & Research Libraries' (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy is a starting point for developing a political economic approach to IL. I will then present a basic theory of information capitalism which includes the concepts of value, commodification, commodity fetish, concentration of ownership, labor, and surveillance. Using the social praxis described above, how can teaching librarians work with our students to challenge information capitalism in impactful ways? But when working with students to challenge information capitalist social relations, the following questions are starting places: How can students and educators partner to support OE, open access publishing, collectively generated knowledge like Wikipedia, and alternative media?	./cache/www-inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe-org-4674.html	./txt/www-inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe-org-4674.txt