Media and Information Literacy Seminar 2023

The Media and Information Literacy Seminar 2023 is dedicated to global media and information literacy and development information.

Topics

• Internet literacy, MIL, and meta literacy
• Global, international, regional, and national agenda for MIL
• MIL’s role in preventing the use of social media to polarize society
• Disinformation, propaganda, and MIL
• MIL in times of crisis (e.g. pandemics) and war (e.g. Palestine, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan)
• MIL, elections, good governance
• The use of media, information, and technology to advance MIL development among people
• The role of social media in promoting peace and access to information
• MIL policies and practices
• MIL and social justice
• Youth: Formal/informal education, and peer education
• Teacher training; how to educate the educators?
• MIL in theoretical contexts
• Information literacy, libraries, the public sphere
• MIL citizens as empowered and informed members of the society
• Youth and the news
• MIL and freedom of expression: Hate speech, dialogue, and engagement
• Promoting intercultural dialogue through MIL
• MIL Futures: Innovation, best practices, challenges, the next step, where are we heading?
• MIL’s role in privacy and protection of personal data (General Data Protection Regulation)
• Innovation, tools, state-of-the-art technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) and MIL