The International Conference on New Media and Social Media: New Media Literacy in the AI Age invites scholars, practitioners and enthusiasts from around the globe to explore the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on personal media life (e.g., news and entertainment consumption, access to health and science information, cultural productions, mediated interpersonal communication). As such, the fast-changing nature of the media landscape has posited new challenges and requirements for the public to update their new media literacy and navigate a healthy and sustainable digital life. According to Livingstone (2004), media literacy can be conceptualised as “the ability to access, analyse, evaluate and create messages across a variety of contexts”. This definition suggests four key components of an individual’s literacy skills. Moreover, media contexts are constantly changing from newspapers, radio and TV to today’s social media, smartphones and AI.  

Following this rationale, this conference aims to:  

• Explore how people access, analyse, evaluate, and use AI technologies or social media under the influence of AI (e.g., algorithms, chatbots, other forms of AI-driven automation).  
• Assess how new media literacy in the AI era differs from and converges with other forms of media literacy (e.g., news literacy, social media literacy, smartphone literacy).  
• Provide a platform to discuss the latest media effects, problems and coping strategies, related to new media in the AI age. It aims to develop an initiative of new media literacy with social impacts for public education.  
• Contribute to achieving the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (https://sdgs.un.org/goals).

For more details about the conference and the Call for Papers, please visit: https://eduhknmsmcon.com/.

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Livingstone, S. (2004). What is media literacy?. Intermedia, 32(3), 18-20.