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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please see below the CfP of JASIS&T special issue on Informational Transitions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Special Issue on “The Theory and Practice of Informational Transitions”</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Deadline June 13<sup>th</sup>, 2024</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Overview</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Life transitions forms a rich area of scholarship for Information Science research. The last five years have seen a steady growth in the publication of empirical studies related to transition, including
PhD work and longitudinal studies, in a variety of areas including health, social, academic and employment contexts. At the same time, emerging conceptual work has also started to re-examine transition through a historical lens, including how change and adjustment
has been treated in historical Information Science scholarship. This adds significant scope for complex conceptual work. The breadth of interest further means that transition has the potential to unify various related fields of study, including information
behaviour, practice, and literacy research as well as various disciplinary fields.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This Special Issue will provide a platform for the exploration of life transitions from an information behaviour, information practice, or information literacy perspective. The aim is to develop the emerging
conceptualisation of what transition means in these fields of study through examining different theoretical models, methodological approaches, and empirical findings. This Special Issue will act as focal point for growing theoretical and empirical interest
in the relationship between life transitions and information.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Special Issue Theme</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Transitions are a natural state in everyday life. In a broader sense, individuals could be said to be in a constant state of transition, or “transitioning” with every passage in life. According to the
Oxford English Dictionary, transition is defined both as a noun and adverb, it is both: “A passing or passage from one condition, action, or (rarely) place, to another; “change” and, “To make or undergo a transition (from one state, system, etc. to or into
another); to change over or switch.”</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">From a research perspective, transition is a complex topic that has been variously conceptualised and defined. Transitions can be personal (changes due to changes in life cycle), situational (changes
in circumstances in personal or professional life), or environmental (changes in the organisational environment impacting individuals) (Schumacher & Meleis, 1994). These emphases mean that transition has been most comprehensively explored to date within the
field of Education and Nursing. Conceptual work in these areas has focused on the process through which people in transition move beyond a disrupted reality to construct a new reality. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Information has been found to be a strong trigger in the transition process. Transitions fracture the individual’s information landscapes and require them to learn new “ways of knowing” (Lloyd, 2017),
a process that often requires both seeking and avoiding information as a coping mechanism to reduce uncertainty (Savolainen, 2017). This notion of a "gappy" reality (Dervin, 1999, p. 370) resonates with sense-making’s premise of discontinuity (Dervin, 2003)
as a fundamental aspect of reality that mandates humans to "take steps to construct sense in constantly changing life situations." (Savolainen, 1993, p. 16).</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Although transitions are permeated with information practices of many kinds, information behaviour / practices/ literacy research has engaged only peripherally with ideas of transition and the concept
remains underexplored (e.g. Bronstein, 2018; Karim, Widén & Heinström, 2019; Hertzum & Hyldegård, 2019; Hicks, 2019; Huttunen & Kortalainen, 2021; Lloyd, 2017; McKenzie, 2001; Ruthven, 2021; Willson, 2019). Consequently, the aim of this special issue is to
extend these initial explorations of transition through an information lens. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We invite empirical, conceptual or methodological submissions for this special issue that address one or more of these questions:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">How should transition be conceptualised, studied, evaluated within the field of information behaviour, information practice or information literacy? </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">What
is the role of information and information activities, including information avoidance, in a transition?</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">E.g.,
What role do uncertainty, liminality, agency, reflexivity, time, affect and place play in shaping transitional information practices?</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">What
models, theories and concepts from Information Science and beyond are useful for studying transitions?</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">What
research methods/methodologies can we use to study transition? e.g., interdisciplinary, arts-based, narrative and longitudinal? </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">What
types of life transitions exist and how can they be conceptualised in information behaviour, information practice or information literacy? e.g.,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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organisational and social transitions </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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migration/refugee, education, workplace, intercultural, parenthood, ageing, religious/spiritual, personal development and gender transitions</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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or unwanted transitions</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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informational strategies might support transitions? e.g., </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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intermediaries and gatekeepers</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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resources</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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interventions</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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technologies including social media and user-generated content</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Paper Development Workshop</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Potential authors will have the opportunity to attend an online paper development workshop held on 13<sup>th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>September 2023. The workshop will provide
an opportunity for those interested in submitting to the special issue to present their in-progress papers and receive feedback and guidance from the guest editors on how to develop their research into papers suitable for the special issue. Those interested
in participating in the workshop should submit an extended abstract of up to 1,000 words to Ian Ruthven<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ian.ruthven@strath.ac.uk" title="mailto:ian.ruthven@strath.ac.uk"><span style="color:#0563C1">ian.ruthven@strath.ac.uk</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by
August 18<sup>th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>2023. Participation in the workshop is not required for submissions to the special issue, but we encourage those interested in submitting to the special issue to take advantage of this opportunity
and receive feedback prior to submitting papers for consideration in the special issue.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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