Much like first wave feminism our first waves of information literacy focused on education and skills to navigate systems. Over time the waves evolved to center and include marginalized humans, concepts, and care. Today, however, we face insidious challenges where the weaponization of data and information against us is imperceptible yet forceful. In this session I will draw connections to fourth wave feminisms by defining what we might call "fourth wave information literacy." I will describe classroom tested activities via three approaches: gaining awareness of the fog, circumventing manipulation, and controlling the information consumed and subsequent decisions we make.
Participants will be able to: 1. Describe elements of Fourth Wave Information Literacy and why they matter for research and instruction sessions 2. Describe at least one classroom activity with Fourth-Wave Information Literacy in mind in order to illuminate algorithmic influence
