[Sighfis-l] Fwd: [icie] Call for Papers: Why is the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies needed today?

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Subject: 	[icie] Call for Papers: Why is the Journal of Critical Library 
and Information Studies needed today?
Date: 	Wed, 21 Oct 2015 19:16:46 -0600
From: 	Jared Bielby <bielby at ualberta.ca>
To: 	icie at zkm.de <icie at zkm.de>, Rory Litwin <rlitwin at gmail.com>



>
>
> Call for Papers: Deadline Extended for Inaugural Issue
>
> Theme: Why is the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 
> needed today?
>
>
> The Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies is a 
> peer-reviewed open access journal which addresses the need for 
> critical discourse in library and information science and associated 
> domains such as communication and media studies. It critically engages 
> the cultural forms, social practices, the political economy, and the 
> history of information and information institutions. It also seeks to 
> broaden the methodological commitments of the field and to broaden the 
> scope of library and information studies by applying diverse critical, 
> trans-disciplinary, and global perspectives. The journal engages 
> issues of social and cognitive justice and the historical and 
> contemporary roles of documentary, information, and computational 
> technologies in creating, mediating, surveilling, and challenging 
> personal and social identities in cultural and political economies of 
> power and expression.
>
> For its inaugural issue, the JCLIS will focus on why such a journal is 
> needed, as a platform for critical discourse in LIS. JCLIS seeks to 
> publish research articles, literature reviews, and possibly other 
> essay forms (up to 7000 words) that use or examine critical 
> perspectives on library and information studies. Some of the issues 
> that might be addressed are: What are the current gaps in disciplines 
> and discourses that make the JCLIS necessary? How can scholars speak 
> to past silences in research and thinking in information studies? What 
> is “critical perspective” in library and information studies research? 
> What ethical or political commitments might a critical perspective 
> entail? What do critical perspectives look like in practice?
>
> The theme for the inaugural issue is broad by design in order to 
> encourage diverse perspectives in describing, analyzing, and providing 
> insight into how and where library and information studies might 
> intersect with ethical, philosophical, and/or political concerns, 
> interpretative or speculative approaches to analysis, or 
> experimentation with novel, unique, or exploratory research designs 
> that might be marginalized or excluded from mainstream library and 
> information studies research. JCLIS aims to be a an inclusive platform 
> for library and information studies research,including locally 
> specific research designs and investigations as well as research that 
> adopts a more global or international frame of inquiry. To that end, 
> the journal also welcomes unpublished works in translation.
>
> Deadline for receipt of manuscripts has been extended to December 
> 18th, 2015.
>
> Possible topic areas may include (but are not limited to):
>
> - What is/are critical library and information studies? What might 
> distinguish critical approaches?
>
> - The use of a particular critical perspective for research into 
> topics relevant to library and information studies
>
> - Different notions of critical approaches and perspectives, and their 
> relations to information and knowledge studies and research
>
> - When and why are critical approaches timely? How does its timeliness 
> or not apply to today’s problems of information and knowledge?
>
> - Applications of critical approaches in information institution, 
> organization, or community contexts of practice.
>
> - How critical approaches or methods might relate to other 
> contemporary topics within library and information studies: open 
> access, patron privacy, evolutions in scholarly communication, digital 
> humanities, etc.
>
> - How are critical perspectives included or excluded from empirical or 
> engineering methods in the information and library sciences?
>
> - Descriptions and reflections on methods for conducting library and 
> information studies research with a critical approach. What is the 
> relationship of method tocritical activity?
>
> - Critical perspectives on race and ethnicity in LIS, and/or the need 
> for critical perspectives in LIS research.
>
> - How might postcolonial theory expand the scope and methods of LIS 
> research?
>
> - Critical approaches for investigating militarism and the politics of 
> information.
>
> - Development/Implementation of information services for diasporic 
> populations.
>
> - What has been the relation of critical theory to the LIS tradition 
> and its modes of historical, qualitative, and quantitative research?
>
> - What is the relationship of critical theory to LIS education and to 
> LIS research?
>
> - Failures and shortcomings: how can critical perspectives inform and 
> improve library and information studies?
>
> - Gender and identity within LIS: how might critical perspectives or 
> approaches be used to explore or investigate them?
>
> - #critlib and alternative platforms for critical professional 
> conversation
>
> - Library and information studies versus library and information 
> science: What are the differences?
>
> Types of Submissions
> JCLIS welcomes the following types of submissions:
>
> Research Articles (no more than 7000 words)
> Perspective Essays (no more than 5000 words)
> Literature Reviews (no more than 7000 words)
> Interviews (no more than 5000 words)
> Book or Exhibition Reviews (no more than 1200 words)
> Research articles and literature reviews are subject to peer review by 
> two referees. Perspective essays are subject to peer review by one 
> referee. Interviews and book or exhibition reviews are subject to 
> review by the issue editor(s).
>
> Contacts
> Guest Editors for the Inaugural Issue of JCLIS
> Please direct questions to the guest editors for the issue:
>
> Ronald Day, Indiana University - Bloomington: roday at indiana.edu 
> <mailto:roday at indiana.edu>
> Alycia Sellie, Graduate Center, City University of New York: 
> ASellie at gc.cuny.edu <mailto:ASellie at gc.cuny.edu>
> Andrew J Lau, UCLA Extension: andrewjlau at ucla.edu 
> <mailto:andrewjlau at ucla.edu>
>
> Journal Editors
> Associate Editor: Emily Drabinski
> Associate Editor: Rory Litwin
> Managing Editor: Andrew J Lau
>
>
> Description of the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies
>
> The mission of the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 
> is to serve as a peer-reviewed platform for critical discourse in and 
> around library and information studies from across the disciplines. 
> This includes but is not limited to research on the political economy 
> of information, information institutions such as libraries, archives, 
> and museums, reflections on professional contexts and practices, 
> questioning current paradigms and academic trends, questioning the 
> terms of information science, exploring methodological issues in the 
> context of the field, and otherwise enriching and broadening the scope 
> of library and information studies by applying diverse critical and 
> trans-disciplinary perspectives. Recognizing library and information 
> studies as a diverse, cross-disciplinary field reflective of the 
> scholarly community’s diverse range of interests, theories, and 
> methods, JCLIS aims to showcase innovative research that queries and 
> critiques current paradigms in theory and practice through 
> perspectives that originate from across the humanities and social 
> sciences.
>
> Each issue is themed around a particular topic or set of topics, and 
> features a guest editor (or guest editors) who will work with the 
> managing editor to shape the issue’s theme and develop an associated 
> call for papers. Issue editors will assist in the shepherding of 
> manuscripts through the review and preparation processes, are 
> encouraged to widely solicit potential contributions, and work with 
> authors in scoping their respective works appropriately.
>
> JCLIS is open access in publication, politics, and philosophy. In a 
> world where paywalls are the norm for access to scholarly research, 
> the Journal recognizes that removal of barriers to accessing 
> information is key to the production and sharing of knowledge. Authors 
> retain copyright of manuscripts published in JCLIS, generally with a 
> Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. If an article is 
> republished after initially publication in JCLIS, the republished 
> article should indicate that it was first published by JCLIS.
>
>
> Submission Guidelines for Authors
> The Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies welcomes 
> submissions from senior and junior faculty, students, activists, and 
> practitioners working in areas of research and practice at the 
> intersection of critical theory and library and information studies.
>
> Authors retain the copyright to material they publish in the JCLIS, 
> but the Journal cannot re-publish material that has previously been 
> published elsewhere. The journal also cannot accept manuscripts that 
> have been simultaneously submitted to another outlet for possible 
> publication.
>
>
> Citation Style
> JCLIS uses the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition as the official 
> citation style for manuscripts published by the journal. All 
> manuscripts should employ the Notes and Bibliography style (as 
> footnotes with a bibliography), and should conform to the guidelines 
> as described in the Manual.
>
>
> Submission Process
> Manuscripts are to be submitted through JCLIS’ online submission 
> system (http://libraryjuicepress.com/journals/index.php/jclis) by 
> December 18th, 2015. This online submission process requires that 
> manuscripts be submitted in separate stages in order to ensure the 
> anonymity of the review process and to enable appropriate formatting.
>
> Abstracts (500 words or less) should be submitted in plain text and 
> should not include information identifying the author(s) or their 
> institutional affiliations. With the exception of book reviews, an 
> abstract must accompany all manuscript submissions before they are 
> reviewed for publication.
>
> The main text of the manuscript must be submitted as a stand-alone 
> file (in Microsoft Word or RTF)) without a title page, abstract, page 
> numbers, or other headers or footers. The title, abstract, and author 
> information should be submitted through the submission platform.
-- 
Jared Bielby, MA/MLIS
/Netizen Consulting/
Moderator, ETAP (Collabratec™ - IEEE)
Editor-in-Chief, The Freelance Netizen™
Co-chair, International Center for Information Ethics
Editor, International Review of Information Ethics
www.jaredbielby.com <http://www.jaredbielby.com>


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