[csaa-forum] SI CFP: Transient migrants and their information behaviours

[Catherine Gomes]

RMIT Classification: Trusted

Special Issue Call for Papers (Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration)

Transient migrants and their information behaviours

How people source, engage and act on information have become of significant interest to researchers, industry professionals, policymakers, NGOs and community groups, alike. This is because we live in an information-saturated world which offers a wide range information to meet our needs both online and offline. These challenges become even more heightened when people are in countries other than their own and subject to multiple digital ecologies which include information channels, platforms, cultures and languages foreign to what they are used to. This Special Issue specifically looks at the information behaviours of transient migrants – groups of people who are temporarily in a country because of study, work, lifestyle or humanitarian reasons. Transient migrants thus include students, knowledge workers, migrant workers, itinerant workers, backpackers, tourists, refugees and asylum seekers, just to name a few.

This Special Issue explores, yet is not limited to, the following questions:

  *   How do transient migrants access and engage with information when they are outside their home countries?
  *   Where do transient migrants access and engage with information to help them navigate their lives overseas?
  *   What is the role of multi- and poly-media in the lives transient migrants when they are outside their home country?
  *   What is the experience of transient migrants with misinformation and disinformation?
  *   What issues of digital access and inclusion may impact on the wellbeing transient migrants?

Timeline

Abstracts due: 1 July 2023

Full papers due: 1 January 2024

Reviews due: 30 April 2024

Revised papers due: 31 August 2024

Special Issue Editors

Shanton Chang (University of Melbourne) – shanton.chang at unimelb.edu.au

Dana Mckay (RMIT University) – dana.mckay at rmit.edu.au

Catherine Gomes (RMIT University) – catherine.gomes at rmit.edu.au

For more information, see here: Intellect Books | Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration<https://www.intellectbooks.com/transitions-journal-of-transient-migration>

Much thanks,
Cat

Professor Catherine Gomes
Deputy Higher Degree by Research (HDR) Coordinator
School of Media and Communication
RMIT University
tel: 61-3-9925 5068
Email: catherine.gomes at rmit.edu.au
Staff website<https://www.rmit.edu.au/contact/staff-contacts/academic-staff/g/gomes-associate-professor-catherine>

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Co-Convenor, Mobilities, Migrations and Diverse Communities <https://www.mobilitiesmigration.org/>

Book Series Editor, Media, Culture and Communication in Migrant Societies (Amsterdam University Press)<https://www.aup.nl/en/series/media-culture-and-communication-in-migrant-societies>
Editor, Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration<https://www.intellectbooks.com/transitions-journal-of-transient-migration>

Latest books/Journal Special Issues
Parallel Societies of International Students in Australia: Connections, Disconnections and a Global Pandemic<https://www.routledge.com/Parallel-Societies-of-International-Students-in-Australia-Connections/Gomes/p/book/9780367655341>
Recipient of the A. Noam Chomsky Global Connections Shining Star Award for Achievement in Research
Special Issue: The Digitalization of International Education (Journal of Studies in International Education)<https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/jsia/26/2>

Latest Publications (journals, book chapters, reports)
Politics of on-demand food delivery: Policy design and the power of algorithms<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/KYHW8IMQPWQFPF4EIBUJ?target=10.1111/ropr.12543> (Journal Article) New!
Regional similarities and the illusion of unity: Asian foreign talent and the lack of integration in Singapore<https://worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/9789811267536_0003> (book chapter) New!
Keeping calm and carrying on: international students in lockdown<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/tjtm_00044_1> (Journal Article) New!
Shock temporality: international students coping with disrupted lives and suspended futures<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12564-022-09793-2>
Digital Campuses of Universities: Places for intercultural learnings or cultural segmentation? <https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003159810-17/digital-campuses-universities-shanton-chang-catherine-gomes>
Why the Digitalization of International Education Matters <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10283153221095163>
Contact Points: Enabling International Students during Critical Incidents<https://contactpoints.org/> (resource tool)

See Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=qyX8570AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&gmla=AJsN-F5nKSJ1tDTF5q5CAH3L0e-sMOh6ISCz9TD2dNK9BCfzwPI9_SFrxZnju-dGniJftgIILN9_5XLNx5Qw-74KafTDLSZo5uMBt6uomQwoVZdvoE8x-_E> for complete list of publications and personal website<https://catherinegomesdotcom.wordpress.com/> for more information on research profile and projects.

I would like to acknowledge the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. I respectfully acknowledge their Ancestors and Elders, past and present.
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