Media and Information Literacy (MIL) in Latin America and the Caribbean

Vol. 12 No. 2 (2024) of the open access Journal of Latin American Communication Research focuses on Media and Information Literacy (the introduction is here): articles (available in Spanish and English) include:
- Challenges for Media and Information Literacy (MIL) policies in Latin America and the Caribbean by Rosa M. González
- Media and Information Literacy in Latin America and the Caribbean. Challenges and opportunities of an unequal region by Silvia Bacher
- The Pillars of Media and Information Literacy in Times of Artificial Intelligence by Janneth Trejo-Quintana, Alexandre Sayad
- MIL and Democracy in Latin America. Lessons from independent journalism: An overview of Mexico and Brazil by Carolina Montiel Navarro, Laura Martínez Águila
- A Continent to be Known - A comparative perspective between two Civil Society Organizations dedicated to Media and Information Literacy (MIL) in Latin America by Manuel-Antonio Monteagudo, Francisco González
- Media and Information Literacy and Alternative Media by Hugo Maguey
- Contemporary challenges of MIL: Towards an education for emancipation by José Manuel Corona-Rodríguez, Guillermo Orozco Gómez
- Media and Information Literacy Research in Latin America by Eva Da Porta, Paula Morabes
Go to https://www.journal.pubalaic.org/index.php/jlacr
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New articles: Latin America; Misinformation; Mindfulness; Critical evaluation; AI & #infolit frameworks; #infolit for English students

The latest issue of open access Journal of Information Literacy Vol. 18 No. 2 (2024) includes:
- Past, present and future of information literacy in Latin America by Alejandro Uribe-Tirado, Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo
- A mindfulness-based information literacy framework for the current information environment by Matthew N. Hannah, Jennifer Hoewe, Hanna Sistek, Taeik Kim, Dan Goldwasser
- Chaos creator: Misinformation inoculation in information literacy instruction by Mandi Goodsett
- Cultivating critical information evaluation through motivational confidence: An exploratory crosswalk analysis by Samantha LeGrand, Victoria Dawkins
- The early development of information literacy instruction for young people as revealed by six volumes by Andrew Shenton
- Integrating basic artificial intelligence literacy with media and information literacy in higher education by Miriam Wanjiku Ndungu
- Three shots are better than one: Establishing and evaluating the English library instruction pilot by Amy McLay Paterson, Benjamin Mitchell, Stirling Prentice, Elizabeth Rennie
Go to https://journals.cilip.org.uk/jil/issue/view/50
Photo by Sheila Webber: Botanic Gardens, October 2024

Recent articles: Journal of Information Literacy

There is a special issue of the open-access Journal of Information Literacy (vol 18 number 1) marking 50 years since Zurkowski coined the phrase "information literates". I will present the contents in two parts (as it has the special-issue contents, plus usual content) starting with the Anniversary content:
- before information literacy field notes on the end of IL by nicholae cline, Jorge R. López-McKnight
- A creative future for information and digital literacy by Vicky Grant
- Chasing information literacy into the wild Questions for the Anthropocene epoch by Annemaree Lloyd
- “Do as I say, not as I do…” A present (and future) concern about the pedagogy of hypocrisy and information literacy by Silvia Vong
- Rethinking the teleological essence of information literacy Academic abstraction or real-life action literacy? by Dijana Šobota
- Information literacy after the AI revolution by Noora Hirvonen
- Training school students in information evaluation Reviewing the past, establishing the present and considering the future by Andrew Shenton
- Critical information literacy The challenge, the criticism, and the need for reflection and research by Jess Haigh
- Information literacy now Examining where we are to understand where we are going by Laura Saunders - Investigating information literacy Fool’s errand or new message? by Geoff Walton
- Flourishing in an ocean of information A futures vision for information literacy by Hilary Hughes
- Archives as the prologues of information literacy by Andrew Whitworth
- Beginnings of information literacy in Latin America A recognition of the pioneers by Alejandro Uribe-Tirado, Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo
- Navigating constant change Exploring information literacies in the context of social media health information by Anna-Maija Multas
- Navigating tomorrow's classroom The future of information literacy and inquiry-based learning in the age of AI by Elizabeth Hutchinson
- The negative spaces of information literacy An alternative research agenda by Alison Hicks
- Cruel optimism, or, this time will be different! by Maura Seale, Karen Nicholson
Go to https://journals.cilip.org.uk/jil/issue/view/47
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New articles: The disinformation society: The impact of fake news on the public sphere

The latest issue of open access journal Comunicar, (issue 72) has the theme: The disinformation society: The impact of fake news on the public sphere. It is available in English and Spanish (the link below to the whole issue is to the English version, but the individual links are mostly to the Spanish; click on the flags at the top to go to a different language) https://www.revistacomunicar.com/index.php?contenido=revista&numero=72&idioma=en
- Creators and spectators facing online information disorder. Effects of digital content production on information skills by Gabriela Taddeo | Belinda de-Frutos-Torres | María-Cruz Alvarado https://doi.org/10.3916/C72-2022-01
- Unraveling disinformation: Notions and discourses from the Spanish population by Lidia Valera-Ordaz | Marina Requena-i-Mora | Dafne Calvo | Guillermo López-García https://doi.org/10.3916/C72-2022-02
- Russian disinformation in Eastern Europe. Vaccination media frames in ro.sputnik.md by Andreea-Alina Mogoș | Teodora-Elena Grapă | Teodora-Felicia Șandru https://doi.org/10.3916/C72-2022-03
- Rhetoric of parliamentary disinformation on Twitter by Eva Campos-Domínguez | Marc Esteve-Del-Valle | Cristina Renedo-Farpón https://doi.org/10.3916/C72-2022-04
- Quality recognition as a prescriber against disinformation by Dolors Palau-Sampio | Adolfo Carratalá | Raquel Tarullo | Paz Crisóstomo https://doi.org/10.3916/C72-2022-05
- The life of COVID-19 mask memes: A diachronic study of the pandemic memescape by Marta Dynel https://doi.org/10.3916/C72-2022-06
- Virtual reality with distractors to overcome public speaking anxiety in university students by Emma Rodero | Olatz Larrea https://doi.org/10.3916/C72-2022-07
- Political hate speech of the far right on Twitter in Latin America by Enrique Díez-Gutiérrez | María Verdeja | José Sarrión-Andaluz | Luis Buendía | Julián Macías-Tovar https://doi.org/10.3916/C72-2022-08 - Smartphones in Higher Education. A longitudinal qualitative study by Irina Salcines-Talledo | Natalia González-Fernández | Laura Díaz-Herrera | Manuel Area-Moreira https://doi.org/10.3916/C72-2022-09
- Interdisciplinarity of scientific production on hate speech and social media: A bibliometric analysis by Antonia Ramírez-García | Antonio González-Molina | María-del-Pilar Gutiérrez-Arenas | Manuel Moyano-Pacheco https://doi.org/10.3916/C72-2022-10
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Information Literacy in Ibero-America #alfin

The Wiki Information Literacy in Ibero-America (with content in Hispanic languages, notably Spanish and Portuguese; started in 2011) has been updated over the past year. It is currently at http://alfiniberoamerica.wikispaces.com/ but as Wikispaces is closing in July 2018 they will be moving it to another platform. Thus it is a good time to suggest improvments and additional content. If you have further updates please email auribe.bibliotecologia.udea@gmail.com or alfiniberoamerica@gmail.com

Thanks to Alejandro Uribe-Tirado who alerted me to that, and also to this article:
- Uribe-Tirado, A. and Pinto, M. (2017). 75 lessons learned for enhancing information literacy programs: From Ibero-America to universities worldwide. Information and Learning Science, 118(9/10), 471-489. https://doi.org/10.1108/ILS-04-2017-0032

New articles: Information Research

A new issue of the open-access journal Information Research has just been published. Articles include:
- Naresh Kumar Agarwal: Towards a definition of serendipity in information behaviour
- Gloria Ponjuán, María Pinto and Alejandro Uribe-Tirado: Conceptualización y perspectivas de la alfabetización informacional en Iberoamérica: un estudio Delphi [in Spanish. tr Conceptualisation and perspectives on information literacy in Latin America: a delphi study]
- Lin Wang and Fei Guo: Environmental cognitions and scanning behaviour of managers of Chinese small and medium-size enterprises: an empirical study of a multidimensional model
- Jin Ha Lee, Rachel Ivy Clarke and Yea-Seul Kim: Video game information needs and game organization: differences by sex and age
- Tung-Mou Yang and Yi-Jung Wu: Exploring the effectiveness of cross-boundary information sharing in the public sector: the perspective of government agencies
- Safirotu Khoir, Jia Tina Du and Andy Koronios: Everyday information behaviour of Asian immigrants in South Australia: a mixed-methods exploration
Go to http://www.informationr.net/ir/20-3/infres203.html
Photo by Sheila Webber: Beer on bench, Boras, Sweden, September 2015

3000th post! Foro de Alfabetizacion Mediatica e Informacional en Latino America y El Caribe

This is my 3000th blog post here, and it celebrates the Latin American and Caribbean Media and Information Literacy (MIL) forum that was just held (10-11 December) in Mexico (Foro de Alfabetizacion Mediatica e Informacional en Latino America y El Caribe). The Forum establshed a Latin American and Caribbean chapter of the Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy (GAPMIL) and also made a Declaración de México on MIL (I think the final text has not yet been published).
Additionally, the Doha Centre for Media Freedom signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico’s television directorate (TV Unam) for cooperation on training and initiatives to do with MIL and media freeedom.
The (Spanish-language) website is at http://www.foroamilac.org/
There is a short video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y07oWoiZV1A and the forum has a channel here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt2blip020_D3EylacECRJQ though at the moment the main thing on it is a series of 3 videos with European media literacy experts saying why media literacy is important.
Photo by Sheila Webber: geese rising, December 2014