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Radical Change was created by Eliza T. Dresang in the 1990s.

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The radical change theory explains changes in information resources and human information behavior in the current digital age.

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Based on the digital age principles of interactivity, connectivity, and access.

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Interactivity refers to dynamic, nonlinear, and consequential learning and information behavior with an increasing sense of control by end-users.

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Connectivity refers to sense of community or construction of social worlds that emerge form changing perspectives and expanded associations. Links for example.

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Radical Change was originally developed to explain changes in digital age books for youth.

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Access refers to breaking of longstanding information barriers, bringing entrée to a wide diversity of formerly inaccessible opinion.

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Radical Change serves as a lens through which to examine, explain, and ultimately, use contemporary literature for youth growing up in the digital age.

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http://www.yalsa.ala.org/jrlya/2015/01/radical-change-theory-framework-for-empowering-digital-youth/

https://www.slideshare.net/mdscils598s09/radical-change-theory-3311899

https://prezi.com/ozld7nairgch/10-facts-about-radical-change-theory/

http://www.citejournal.org/volume-8/issue-3-08/seminal-articles/article2-html-2/

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The term “digital youth” refers to contemporary children and young adults (ages birth through eighteen years) who were born into this interactive and connected digital culture, regardless of their varying levels of access to technologies or digital media skills.

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Radical change is what is known as a spatial/temporal theory, rooted in the belief that authors and illustrators are influenced by the time and place within which they write.