The second conference on »Information Literacy and Democracy« will be held online on 19th and 20th June 2020.

Everyone is invited to submit a poster. This poster should focus on the topic of information literacy and democracy. Some potential topics are:  

  • Information literacy in everyday life (parenthood, health, politics, e-commerce and finances, data protection, evaluation of information) 
  • The (online) teaching of information literacy 
  • Information literacy in specific life phases (childhood, education, job, retirement) 
  • Information literacy and critical thinking 
  • Information literacy and its limits 
  • Information literacy, and information services (libraries, Google, web search, social media, news) 
  • The future of information literacy 

The posters should present these topics from the authors’ perspective.

The posters can be more graphic-visual (see the sketchesnotes for the first conference) or more text-oriented. In addition to the poster, please send a text summary (300-600 words) and a short introduction of the authors (1-2 DIN A4 pages).

Accepted posters and the corresponding text summary will be published on this Website. There will also be a short poster presentation during the conference.

The submission deadline for the posters is 1st June 2020.  

Please send your submission via email (infodem [at] uni-hildesheim.de). Please note that posters submitted after the official submission date cannot be considered.  

If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.