Call for papers: How Fake News Impacts and Engages the Library Mission and Services #WLIC2020

There is a call for papers for the open session on How Fake News Impacts and Engages the Library Mission and Services, organised by IFLA's News Media Section, jointly with the Digital Humanities SIG, FAIFE, and CLM. The session will be during the IFLA Conference Dublin, Ireland, 15-22 August 2020. Deadline for proposals is 29 February 2020. "What’s true in an age of fake news and alternative facts? Fake news and alternative facts dog users of news media and media researchers. The pace of this development is rapidly increasing in digital media. With regard to this IFLA Open Programme Session, ‘fake news’ is defined as “news that conveys or incorporates false, fabricated, or deliberately misleading information, or that is characterised as or accused of doing so” (Oxford English Dictionary). ‘Alternative fact’ is defined as “a theory posited as an alternative to another, often more widely accepted, theory” (Collins dictionary)." Full information at https://2020.ifla.org/cfp-calls/news-media-digital-humanities-digital-scholarship-faife-clm/