It's the afternoon session at ECIL and this is Sheila Webber liveblogging Humanities, Humanism and Ethics in a Digital Context: Challenges for Digital Literacy Research and Learning authored by Paula Ochoa and Leonor Gaspar Pinto (Universidade Nova, CHAM, Portugal), Ana Novo (Universidade Aberta, CIDEHUS-UÉ, Portugal) and presented by Novo. There was a background of project collaboration e.g. specialised course development on digital culture and participation in a think tank. So this collaboration evolved organically. Novo presented Critical Information Literacy as a framework for considering the question "what challenges arise at the intersection of humanities transformation and digital literacy research and learning?" Digital fluency was seen as going basic competencies and literacy, but there are challenges. These include operational focus (looking to much at the skills agenda) and conceptual ambiguity.
Humanistic Information Studies was presented as having as key concepts of information experience, information creation and information work, with a culturally situated and reflective approach. This perspective on Information Science brings it closer to Digital Humanities.
Novo identified the need for digital ethics and an evolving ides of digital literacy. Arising from this they have recommendations: commitment to interdisciplinarity; instutionalisation of the process (embedding digital literacy fluency) and focus on systematic change.
Photo by Sheila Webber: under the linden tree in Bamberg, Germany, September 2025
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