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Reddit can serve as an analogy for scholarly publishing and displays the contextual, constructed nature of authority. Making this process visible to students allows them to transfer a threshold concept and information literacy skills from their personal lives to their academic lives. Reddit is an excellent venue for students to see information literacy threshold concepts about authority being constructed and contextual in action as they, themselves, can engage in the construction in ways they rarely do when authority is discussed strictly within the confines of the scholarly publishing system.
Information resources reflect their creators’ expertise and credibility, and are evaluated based on the information need and the context in which the information will be used. Authority is constructed in that various communities may recognize different types of authority. It is contextual in that the information need may help to determine the level of authority required. (ACRL, 2015, p. 12)
Geo-Political Conflict follows a broad set of issues that are experienced on a national political level that has implications that affect international politics. This subreddit is a store of information that can be referenced externally. Each post is a topic unto itself. As more posts are made, some older submissions can be referenced that include additional research made at the time of submission.