Hot Topics: Smouldering Scholarship in FIMS

Media studies, journalism, library & information science and health information science are awash in polarizing topics. Issues such as the rapid growth of generative AI, the spread of misinformation, and ever-increasing instances of censorship have led to hostility, mistrust, and exhaustion, both within our fields and in the world writ large. These matters reflect a range of cultural, social, and technological challenges that require interrogation.

FIMS faculty and grad students will present on subjects we designate as ‘hot topics:’ the simmering, smouldering, or downright scorching issues we face at the intersection of media studies, library and information science, and health information science. Some examples below,

• Labour politics in higher education
• How health information professionals can play a public role in countering rising anti-science narratives
• New and merging frameworks for teaching media and information literacy
• AI in catalogues, education, cultural industries, GLAM, replacing librarians, and more
• The erosion of journalism and the public sphere
• EDID in cataloguing and call numbers

This conference will provide a window into work that aims to address, redress, or reshape the landscape of our information environments.

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