[ecrea] CFP Special Issue of The Information Society Journal

Call for Papers

The Information Society
Connecting Fields: Information, Learning Sciences and Education 
(http://www.indiana.edu/~tisj/connecting_fields.pdf)


o Deadline for extended abstracts: December 15, 2013
o Selection notification: January 15, 2013
o Final submissions: May 1, 2014



The ways in which people interact with information is evolving rapidly. 
For example, modern questions about life, love, and where to eat for 
dinner are negotiated over platforms such as Yelp or Instagram, and well 
established information environments such as Wikipedia, Twitter, and 
Reddit are being reconsidered as sites for situated learning. We are 
fast moving away from clearly demarcated technologies and arenas for 
information sharing or learning, and instead, evolving toward blended 
realms of public, peer-oriented interaction made possible by new social 
norms and technological affordances.

This blurring of boundaries affords an opportune moment to consider the 
connections between information and education, or the information 
sciences and learning sciences. We need to build bridges between fields, 
institutions, communities and practices. This blending and merging 
represents an analytical opportunity to decipher trends, 
institutionalized assumptions and norms, and conspicuous omissions.

We are soliciting abstracts that exemplify this bi-directional 
perspective, and bring together scholars from multiple fields interested 
in aspects of information, learning, and education. We welcome both 
empirical or conceptual works that: (1) critically integrate a lens from 
information science if the research is grounded in the learning sciences 
or education, or (2) rigorously incorporate a learning or educational 
lens if grounded in information science or related fields.

We hope that this special issue will be a foundational touchstone 
through which scholars across information science, learning sciences, 
and other cognate fields can build a new discourse. We encourage 
contributions that come from a wide range of perspectives, including 
(but not limited to):

o The role of information behavior in learning processes with digital 
and participatory media
o The role of information or education institutions, organizations, and 
networks in facilitating new forms of learning and credentialing
o Applications of information science, computation, and learning 
analytics to create new models for continuous feedback, information 
driven instructional practice, and personalized learning
o Applications of human-centered design to support and develop new 
modalities for learning such as games for learning, simulations, mobile 
and embodied/tangible computing
o Crowds and online communities (e.g., citizen science, Twittersphere) 
as Communities of Practice
o The role of hacker/maker spaces and libraries within the evolving 
learning ecosystem
o The role of technology in enabling new institutional logics within 
education (i.e., massively open online courses (MOOCs), Institute of 
Play’s Quest Schools in New York and Chicago, and Peer2Peer University)
o The relationship between information and education policy
o Any other topics that can be a touchstone for scholars at the 
intersection of information, learning, and education


Guest Editors:

June Ahn, PhD
Assistant Professor
College of Information Studies
College of Education
University of Maryland, College Park
(juneahn /at/ umd.edu)

Ingrid Erickson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Library and Information Science
School of Communication & Information
Rutgers University
(ingrid.erickson /at/ rutgers.edu)

Submission Details:

Interested authors should submit a 300-400 word abstract with 3-6 
keywords by December 15, 2013. Abstracts must address how the paper will 
highlight the bi-directional nature of the special issue theme.

All submissions will be reviewed by the guest editors, and authors will 
be notified of their selection by January 15, 2014. Selected authors 
will be invited to submit a full paper for the special issue and will 
receive feedback to help craft final submissions, which will be due May 
1, 2014. All papers will undergo TIS’ standard peer review process. The 
publication date of the special issue, expected in late 2014, will be 
determined in concert with TIS editors.

Please send all submissions, questions, and correspondence to Dr. June 
Ahn at (juneahn /at/ umd.edu). Include “TIS Special Issue” in the subject title 
of your email.


________________________________________
Ingrid Erickson
Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science
School of Communication & Information
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901


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