[Air-L] CFP, The Information Society Special Issue - Connecting Fields: Information, Learning Sciences and Education

[June Ahn]

Call for Papers
The Information Society

Connecting Fields: Information, Learning Sciences and Education
http://www.indiana.edu/~tisj/connecting_fields.pdf 
<http://www.indiana.edu/%7Etisj/connecting_fields.pdf>

- Deadline for extended abstracts: *December 15, 2013*
- Selection notification: *January 15, 2013*
- Full paper 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

juneahn at umd.edu <mailto: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 <mailto: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. Thereafter, all papers will undergo TIS' standard peer review 
process. Journal publication, 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 <mailto:juneahn at umd.edu>. Include "TIS Special 
Issue" in the subject title of your email.

-- 
June Ahn, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
University of Maryland, College Park
College of Information Studies & College of Education
juneahn at umd.edu
301-405-2037