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

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PROGRAM – FRIDAY, 19th JUNE 2020
02.00 p.m. – Welcoming & opening of the conference
02.45 p.m. – Break
03.00 p.m. – »Views on and the shape of information literacy«

Johanna Rivano Eckerdal
Lund University, Schweden
04.00 p.m. – Break
04.15 p.m. – »Artificial intelligence and its application in information and media literacy education«

William Cope & Mary Kalantzis
University of Illinois, USA
05.30 p.m. – »Advancing democratic dialogue by applying metaliteracy in teaching praxis«

Thomas P. Mackey & Trudi E. Jacobson
State University of New York, USA
Closure of the 1st conference day

PROGRAM – SATURDAY, 20th JUNE 2020
01.00 p.m. – Opening of the 2nd conference day
01.15 p.m. – »Information literacy for a functioning democracy in the post-truth era«

Serap Kurbanoǧlu
Hacettepe University Ankara, Turkey
02.15 p.m. – Break
02.30 p.m. – Workshop
»Learning intercultural aspects of information literacy: An experiential experiment involving German and Indian students«

 Tessy Thadathil, Francis Jarman, Sophie März & Joachim Griesbaum
 Symbiosis College Of Arts & Commerce, Pune & University of   Hildesheim, Germany
03.30 p.m. – Break
04.00 p.m. – »Media and information literacy as self-disruption«

Mario Hibert & Emir Vajzović
University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Conference closing

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