[NORSLIS] Invitation: Submit articles to new journal

[Pertti Vakkari]

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new journal titled  
Information and Learning Science, for which I have joined the  
Editorial Advisory Board. The journal is published by Emerald  
Publishing U.K and is co-edited by Samuel Kai Wah Chu, and Rebecca  
Reynolds who, alongside a scholarly task force team of leaders in the  
field, worked to develop and launch this new endeavor over the last 2  
years with Emerald. The team has a goal to advance interdisciplinary  
research at intersections of two fields with strong scholarly ties:  
information science and the learning sciences/education sciences. The  
inter-disciplinary Associate Editors and Editorial Advisory Board,  
aggregated by Reynolds and Chu can be found here.

The journal's interdisciplinary approach is being advanced due to  
strong recognition in both fields of the conceptual, empirical and  
socio-technical intersections present across these domains, signaled  
by a number of special volumes and conference workshops and events in  
the last 5+ years across these fields that highlight this  
intersection. The new title and team will celebrate their inaugural  
issue in January, 2019 with 8 invited articles from thought leaders in  
this domain, and an introduction co-written by the Editors and  
Associate Editors.

Attached please find the publisher flyer for the journal, a special  
issue call for papers, and the instructions for submitting articles.

We strongly encourage and invite your submissions!  Submission  
guidelines can be found here.

We also invite you to further circulate this email and information in  
your scholarly network, to those who may be interested.

The investigations the journal will cover may include but are not limited to:

     E-learning perspectives on searching, information-seeking, and  
information uses and practices engaged by a full diversity of youth,  
adults, elders and specialized populations, in varied contexts  
including leisure time activities; e-learning at work, in libraries,  
at school, home, during playtime, in health/wellness settings, etc.
     Design and use of systems such as MOOCs, social media, learning  
management systems, search systems, information systems, and other  
technology design innovations that contribute to human inquiry, formal  
and informal learning, searching, information-seeking, information  
uses, knowledge building and sharing, and instruction;
     HCI, socio-technical systems research, and materiality research  
perspectives on information and learning systems design; social  
learning ecologies; and creation and use of physical objects and  
settings that elicit human inquiry and learning;
     Ethnographic; emancipatory; social justice-based; feminist;  
critical race theory; and post-structuralist research involving  
information, learning, equity, design;
     Information, communication, and technology (ICT) considerations  
in computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) contexts;
     Innovations and e-learning solutions that address digital /  
information / media / data literacy and/or address the digital divide;
     Innovations involving problem-, project-, and inquiry-based  
learning contexts and goods;
     Learning analytics and/or data science perspectives on  
measurement and analysis of learning in information / search /  
e-learning systems;
     Social and ethical issues in e-learning contexts such as design,  
measurement, and evaluation -- such as privacy and security concerns  
around student confidentiality, data ownership and ethical data uses  
by researchers, teachers, institutions, etc.


Thanks for considering this new venue in the mix of publications  
outlets for your excellent scholarship.

If you have questions, please let me know and/or you may email the  
editors directly at:
samchu at hku.hk
rbreynol at comminfo.rutgers.edu

Best regards,

Pertti Vakkari


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Pertti Vakkari
Professor Emeritus
Faculty of Communication Sciences
University of Tampere, FIN-33014, Finland
tel: + 358-50-528 8354 (mobile)
email: pertti.vakkari at uta.fi
http://www.uta.fi/sis/perttivakkari/index.html
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