Information Literacy as an Ethical Experience

The purpose is to present ethical challenges of information literacy and introduce the concept of ethical information literacy as an ethical experience. We ask the question: Which ethical components are decisive for ethical information literacy based on information experience? We apply content analyses of selected models of information literacy and information experience and results of a Delphi study on information ethics based on a consensus of 19 Slovak and Czech experts (a survey) and 6 experts (an online discussion.) Results are visualized in conceptual models of ethical issues of digital information. The final model of ethical information literacy experience represents ethical factors of ethical sensitivity, moral imagination, social and intercultural contexts and rules, tensions between people and technologies, values of truth and utility. We recommend inclusion of the ethical components into new models of ethical information literacy experience and apply them in further research and design of value-sensitive digital services.