Online International Conference Information Literacy and Democracy: The Role of Information Experts for Civic Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina Held
The Faculty of Political Sciences, the University of Sarajevo hosted the online international conference Information Literacy and Democracy: The Role of Information Experts for Civic Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina, at which were presented various aspects of media and information literacy, with special emphasis on the important role of information experts for civic development in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Experts in the field of information, communication and related social disciplines from Germany, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina spoke at the conference.
The panelists discussed the challenges we face in the digital environment, related to the accelerated development and transformation of learning in the digital age. Understanding digital states before focusing on our digital competencies, as well as upgrading the ability to navigate the information and media landscape (without succumbing to the pitfalls of network manipulation), is usually perceived as a set of multiple skills necessary for online users to actively shape their lives.
At the conference was also emphasized that media and information literacy should be understood as a process, and as a basic condition for civic discourse and democratic processes.
The IDESA conference in Sarajevo is a continuation of the project of the University of Hildesheim (Germany) Information Literacy and Democracy (IDE) and the online conference from June (https://informationskompetenz.blog.uni-hildesheim.de/conference-june-2020/).
More information about the conference held in Sarajevo is available at the link: https://fpn.unsa.ba/b/information-literacy-and-democracy-conference-2020/.
