Socio-cultural approach to digital information literacy of postgraduate students in Sri Lanka

In today’s information era, combined with technological advancement, most of the information is presented in the digital form. Therefore, the individuals who deal directly with information should be fluent in handling digital information or they should be digital information literate, since creating a digital literate student community is responsibility of librarians and Information Science and Technology teachers. The current study is a socio-cultural approach to investigate the digital information literacy level of postgraduate students in Sri Lanka. Hundred and fifty subjects from two reputed universities in Sri Lanka were included in the study, and the results clearly indicate a higher shift towards digital information literacy skills among the post graduates. Based on this study, recommendations have been made to develop the infrastructure facilities at university level, and to facilitate the availability of more digital information literacy programs for postgraduate students through their respective libraries

Understanding Blockchain Adoption in Italian Firms

This study investigates individuals’ blockchain adoption behavior focusing on the Italian setting, and gathering perceptions from information systems practitioners and entrepreneurs. The aim of the paper is to understand what are the factors that push organizational actors to use the blockchain. To this aim we embrace the second version of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT). The model was estimated using the structural equation modeling with partial least square estimation (PLS-SEM). Our results show that performance expectancy and social influence are factors that have a strong positive effect on people intention to adopt blockchain. Surprisingly, the findings unveil that experience has a negative effect on blockchain use intention. This allows us to argue that the technology under scrutiny has such a disruptive nature that individuals with previous experience look at it with skepticisms as its implementation involves a full re-think of all routines and practices