You can now submit abstracts for review via the conference management system of ECIL 2020!

The abstract submission deadline is January 15th, 2020. More information about the abstract submission process can be found here while the list of available contribution types can be found here.

We are looking forward to your submissions!

We are very excited to announce our first keynote speaker for ECIL 2020: Professor Olof Sundin, Lund University.

Address title: Algorithms and Platforms: Is there a Place for Information Literacy?

Olof Sundin is a Professor in Information Studies at Lund University, Sweden (since 2012). He holds a PhD from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2003). Before starting at Lund Uuniversity in 2005, he was a researcher and lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Informaton Science at Boras University. Sundin’s work primarily concerns information literacies and information practices in various settings. More precisely, he researches the configuration of information in contemporary society, the construction of public knowledge in relation to trust, and information searching and use. Sundin has published extensively in international forums. In 2019 he published the book Invisible search and online earch engines: The ubiquity of search in everyday life (Routledge, with Jutta Haider) and he currently co-leads the project “Algorithms and Literacies: Young people’s understanding and society’s expectations” (2018-2021, The Swedish Research Council). Sundin has been commissioned as an expert by the Government Offices Sweden, Swedish National Agency for Education, Swedish Schools Inspectorate, and The Swedish Internet Foundation.

7^th European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL)
https://ecil2020.ilconf.org/

September 21-24, 2020, Bamberg, Germany

The European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL) is organized by the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University, Department of Information and Communication Sciences of Zagreb University and the Information Literacy Association.

The seventh ECIL conference will be co-organized and hosted by University of Bamberg from 21-24 September 2020, in Bamberg, Germany.