WILU 2024

For the past few decades, librarians have focused instructional efforts on information and other literacies to instill critical thinking in learners. As the rise of misinformation and disinformation, including conspiracy ideation, illustrates, however//something is missing. This presentation will examine the intersections of affect theory, affective states, and information disorder to propose that the profession needs an "affective turn" like that in other fields, drawing from the presenter's recent published and in/progress research on conspiracy theories, metaliteracy, and care ethics.