Join our next online webinar on Tuesday 18th March 2025 at 17.00 CET.
Over the past decade, there has been growing concern about an apparent crisis in information; and media literacy has been widely seen as one of the potential solutions to the problem. This has caused some to argue for a combined form of ‘Media and Information Literacy’. Now, ten years on, seems like a good point to critically re-evaluate these arguments.
In this IAME webinar, we present Swedish academics Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin – both experts on information literacy, and the authors of an important book on the topic Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy, published by Routledge. Haider and Sundin will be in conversation with David Buckingham, and the session will be chaired by Maria Leonida.
In our view, the book brings a fresh critical perspective to the debate, and usefully challenges some established assumptions about both media literacy and information literacy. You can download a digital copy free of charge at: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003163237/paradoxes-media-information-literacy-jutta-haider-olof-sundin.
Join us in this online discussion.The aim of this webinaris to bring together the key questions and issues for media educators.
Speakers:
- Jutta Haider is Professor at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS), University of Borås. She has published widely on information practices and digital cultures’ emerging conditions for production, use, and distribution of knowledge and information, including work on algorithmic information systems and search engines.
- Olof Sundin is Professor in Information Studies at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Sweden. He has extensive experience of researching the configuration of information in contemporary society, the construction of trustworthiness, as well as practices of media and information literacy in schools and in everyday life.
Moderators:
- Maria Leonida, Filmmaker and Media educator, co-founder and Director of Karpos, Centre for Media Education, Athens and IAME board member
- Professor David Buckingham FBA FAcSS, Honorary Professor, Institute of Education, University College London and Emeritus Professor of Media and Communications, Loughborough University (www.davidbuckingham.net)
| Practical information • Date: Tuesday 18th March 2025 at 17:00PM CET • Language: English • Online through Teams • Free participation but registration is needed. • Duration: 1:30 Webinars are open to IAME members and non-members. But we are happy to have you among us as an IAME member. Consider joining IAME as a member. Please feel free to share this information with your own network. |
We look forward to another lively discussion!