Media and Information Literacy Seminar 2023

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

The Media and Information Literacy Seminar 2023 covers topics such as:

• 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