NeMLA 2022: Baltimore, MD. March 10-13, 2022

Today, much of our research and information gathering takes place online. The reality is that despite information literacy efforts, many, if not most, users are increasingly vulnerable online. How do we care about information literacy, data literacy, and media literacy?

For example, in early 2020, researchers found that the websites of over 100 US universities—including MIT, Stanford, and Columbia—had been hacked and compromised by bad actors and essay mills (Rodolfo & Hart-Davidson 2020). In brief, Hart-Davidson describes the process as “laundering a bad [web address] through a good one.” From a “disinfodemic” to “information disorder” to “information overload” to “dark patterns,” scholars and researchers are sounding the alarm on how users are increasingly bombarded with corrupted communication flows, cybersecurity breaches, convoluted data, and more.

This panel aims to consider modes, means, and methods of information sharing and communication online in an age of mis/dis/mal-information. How do we bolster resilience of users online? This panel engages deeply with the theme of NeMLA 2022 by addressing both the literal cybersecurity and information vulnerabilities online as well as considering the ways in which we “care” about these phenomena. This panel invites examinations of information, data, and media literacies from pedagogical, cultural, technological perspectives. New considerations of digital literacies and alternative perspectives are also encouraged.

Abstracts of 250-300 words should be submitted directly on the NeMLA website by September 30, 2021: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19553 (direct link to this panel).

Submission Requirements

The submission deadline is September 30, 2021. All abstracts must be submitted through the NeMLA CFP web site at https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/. Search for ID #19553, "Information, Data, Media: Literacies and Cultures of Care.”

General guidelines for abstracts can be found at http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/callforpapers.html. View the conference web site at https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html.

Contact Information

Chelsea Horne
Professorial Lecturer
Department of Literature
American University

Contact email: horne@american.edu