Teachers vow to 'fight censorship' after school book row The UK's largest education union says librarians have reported

Amazing work by the incredible @libthroughthis.bsky.social and others at the NEU! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And particular congratulations to @qrielle.bsky.social and @madeleinehw.bsky.social for nailing this first IL conference presentation! #lilac26

Err, absolutely AI is racist and sexist… #wtf #lilac26

Two articles/researchers whose papers about political information literacy I really like (and bonus, they are based on actual research rather than click bait) are Simon Cloudesley and @walkyouhome.bsky.social . #lilac26 Try: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid... and scholar.google.com/citations?vi...

Pretty uncomfortable with fixes that don't address the structural and environmental context of mis/dis/mal information.
It's like if we said with food safety, we'll teach everyone to use an epi-pen but not, you know, include proper ingredients lists.
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Hmmm....yes to media literacy, but the focus on just schools and young people?
Adults and older people?
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Oh }>!$^€ don’t get me started on the problems with vaccines, pre-bunking and information literacy #lilac26

Interesting collaboration with X - which structurally enables so much misinformation #lilac26

Slightly uncomfortable with this (class based) denigration of south wales villages, which have been systematically screwed over /given up upon by UK government for decades. #lilac26

Debate yes, but what happens when society forces us to ‘debate’ our trans friends, family, colleagues’ right to exist, for example? No blame to young people for walking away from that ‘debate’ #lilac26

Really interested in thinking about how AI coincided with post covid recovery slump - when people are still recovering from major trauma, existential uncertainty etc. trauma as creating conditions in which sycophantic chat bots thrive #lilac26

Southport riots were also characterised by a lack of official information, which created the structural conditions that enabled disinformation to spread. Disinformation is also a structural not just an individual issue #lilac26

Believing 5G caused covid is also symptomatic of the lack of trust UK people has in the government- which was more than justified by party gate… Misinformation etc is a structural not just an individual issue #lilac26

Thanks will take a look!

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology | ASIS&T Journal | Wiley Online Library The concept of ‘information crisis’ is playing an increasingly prominent role within information studies literature and practice. Yet, the term is rarely defined and its meaning often remains both in...

Interesting that both keynotes have now referenced crisis. I’m still very wary about this, and tbh I think it limits IL thinking, research, discourse and teaching #lilac26 asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I HAVE ALL THE THOUGHTS ON THIS! BUY ME A DRINK AND I WILL TALK FOREVER…

Interesting focus on ‘wise’- several @jinfolit.bsky.social articles are exploring how IL can also not be ‘wise’ - also, questioning whose understanding of wise prevails #lilac26

But no Bateson! 😢

In my understanding IL as a practice and IL as a discipline are fundamentally incompatible - I wish we could see more discussion about the ontological and epistemological roots of these ideas #lilac26

Although what about gut feelings and embodied forms of IL?

I hope we get to Batesons definition of information in this drive by - which is the one I find most useful for IL #lilac26

New day of LILAC conferencing! If anyone is interested in chatting to me about publication in @jinfolit.bsky.social please come and find me in the breaks (or I’ll be at the ILG stand at 3pm today) We are friendly, supportive and have lots of publication formats for your work! #LILAC26

As someone who loves methods chat, I’m really enjoying considering how speculative thinking can be used for information literacy research in @cocolibrarian.bsky.social and @heatherlincoln.bsky.social ‘s workshop! #lilac26

Yes, go Lea, recent UCL graduate!

Health librarians as friends, partners- or experts? Can you be all three? #lilac26

What about when medical providers create mis and disinformation? (Or governments) #lilac26

Aligning with lived experience is a great shout but how do standardised tests of health literacy access that? I don’t see much health IL research exploring said lived experience yet #lilac26

There’s a really great critique of evidence based language for information literacy. Does anyone have it? #lilac26

No wonder I find it highly problematic then!