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Subject: CFP DEADLINE: 12/15 TIS Special Issue on Information/Learning Sciences
From: Ingrid Erickson [mailto:
ierick@gmail.com]
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Cc: June Ahn
Subject: CFP DEADLINE: 12/15 TIS Special Issue on Information/Learning
Sciences
Apologies for any duplication!
This is a reminder that 300-400 word abstracts for the special issue of The
Information Society, Connecting Fields: Information, Learning Sciences and
Education, are due on 12/15. Abstracts should outline the prospective
article and emphasize how it will highlight the bi-directional nature of the
special issue theme. Please include 3-6 keywords as well.
Please send all submissions, questions, and correspondence to Dr. June Ahn
at
juneahn@umd.edu. Include "TIS Special Issue" in the subject title of your
email.
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Call for Papers
The Information Society
Connecting Fields: Information, Learning Sciences and Education (
<http://www.indiana.edu/%7Etisj/connecting_fields.pdf>
http://www.indiana.edu/~tisj/connecting_fields.pdf)
* Deadline for extended abstracts: December 15, 2013
* Selection notification: January 15, 2013
* 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):
* The role of information behavior in learning processes with digital
and participatory media
* The role of information or education institutions, organizations,
and networks in facilitating new forms of learning and credentialing
* Applications of information science, computation, and learning
analytics to create new models for continuous feedback, information driven
instructional practice, and personalized learning
* Applications of human-centered design to support and develop new
modalities for learning such as games for learning, simulations, mobile and
embodied/tangible computing
* Crowds and online communities (e.g., citizen science, Twittersphere)
as Communities of Practice
* The role of hacker/maker spaces and libraries within the evolving
learning ecosystem
* 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)
* The relationship between information and education policy
* 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
<mailto:
juneahn@umd.edu>
juneahn@umd.edu
Ingrid Erickson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Library and Information Science
School of Communication & Information
Rutgers University
<mailto:
ingrid.erickson@rutgers.edu>
ingrid.erickson@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@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
email: <mailto:
ingrid.erickson@rutgers.edu>
ingrid.erickson@rutgers.edu
office: DeWitt 101 (185 College Ave.)
phone: +1.848.932.7195
fax: +1.732.932.6916
Regards,
Darlene
Darlene J. Alexander-Houle
TIM Division List Serve Moderator