[Air-L] Call for Contributions: iConference workshop in Washington, DC, March 31st, 2019

[Violeta Trkulja]

Dear colleagues,

We invite you to submit your research to our workshop.

Please find below a call for contributions and send it to interested 
colleagues. Apologies for cross posting.

Thank you and kind regards,
Juliane Stiller, Nadia Caidi, Violeta Trkulja and Syed Ishtique Ahmed


*Charting the Future of Forced Migration Research in Information Science*


This is a call for contributions for a full-day workshop at the 2019 
iConference to be held in Washington, DC United States, on Sunday, March 
31st, 2019.

Information as a research object in the area of forced migration[1] and 
vice versa, forced migration in the information science domain, is only 
slowly gaining attention and has not yet been addressed in an 
interdisciplinary research environment. Information science provides a 
perfect lens through which to examine a range of forced 
migration-related issues, practices, and methodologies.


In the workshop, we would like to bring together researchers from the 
information fields broadly construed, along with researchers in related 
disciplines to showcase the range of areas, practices and methodologies 
available to research forced migration. The aim is to introduce our IS 
colleagues to other research in related disciplines, as well as 
acculturate our colleagues from other disciplines into the rich research 
context and frameworks in information science.


Throughout the workshop, attendees will be able to examine these 
research questions, focusing on one of the two following themes:

+Information spaces of refugees
-navigating the information environments in new and/or transitional 
countries
-operational knowledge about information practices in different contexts
-making space for refugees
-evolving services provided by (public) libraries and other information 
professionals in the context of forced migration

+Digitally-mediated environments of refugees
-information-related skills and strategies that facilitate access to 
information
-the role of social media and online spaces as sources of information 
and in creating and regaining a sense of place
-role and/or importance of access to ICT for refugees
-credibility and assessment issues; multilingual interactions; 
user-generated content

The workshop will feature a panel, lightning talks and engagement sessions.


+Abstract Submission

The workshop welcomes submissions for presenting a lightning talk of 15 
minutes in one of the main themes of the workshop: Information spaces of 
refugees and digitally-mediated environments for refugees. Each 
lightning talk session will be followed by an interactive engagement 
with part of the audience led by the speaker. When submitting an 
abstract for a talk, please state your plan for an interactive session 
that encourages audience commentary and engagement. Please plan for no 
more than 30 minutes. Your submission should include the following things:

-abstract of your lightning talk with up to 300 words
-short description of your audience engagement idea with no more than 
200 words.


Please send your submission to 
iconf2019-forcedmigrationws at lists.hu-berlin.de


*Important Dates*

-Abstract submission deadline: Jan 15th, 2019
-Notification of acceptance: Feb 15th, 2019


Knowledge Dissemination – Special Issue of IJIDI

In addition to the Workshop, we will also produce a Special Issue in the 
International Journal for Information, Diversity and Inclusion (IJIDI) 
on the theme of the future of forced migration in information science. 
We welcome full research papers that make a novel contribution to this 
area of research (e.g., empirical, theory-based, methodological, 
comparative), and we seek a broad spectrum of submissions from workshop 
attendees as well as those who are not able to attend the workshop. The 
Special Issue will also have a special section for student work, works 
in progress, opinion pieces, and professional reports.

Deadlines for the Special Issue of IJIDI: Extended abstracts of up to 
1,000 words for full research papers and up to 500 words for 
contributions to the special section are due by April 30, 2019. Authors 
will be notified of acceptance by May 30, 2019. The final papers will be 
due by October 15, 2019. Publication scheduled for the April 2020 issue.

Organizers

Dr. Juliane Stiller, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, 
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (juliane.stiller at ibi.hu-berlin.de)

Dr. Nadia Caidi, Faculty of Information, University Toronto, Canada 
(nadia.caidi at utoronto.ca)

Dr. Violeta Trkulja, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, 
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (violeta.trkulja at ibi.hu-berlin.de)

Dr. Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Computer Science, University of Toronto, 
Canada (ishtiaque at cs.toronto.edu)

[1] Lloyd, A., Pilerot, O., & Hultgren, F. (2017). The remaking of 
fractured landscapes: Supporting refugees in transition (SpiRiT). 
Information Research, 22(3), paper 764. Retrieved from 
http://www.informationr.net/ir/22-3/paper764.html

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Dr. Juliane Stiller und Dr. Violeta Trkulja
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Berlin School of Library and Information Science
Sitz: Dorotheenstrasse 26, 10117 Berlin
Post: Unter den Linden 6,  10099 Berlin

Mail: juliane.stiller at ibi.hu-berlin.de | violeta.trkulja at ibi.hu-berlin.de
Web: www.ibi.hu-berlin.de