Special Issue: Banned Words, Banned Knowledge: Information Literacy in a Censored Society
2025-08-22
The Journal of Information Literacy (JIL) welcomes submissions related to or exploring information literacy and terms that have been erased or banned by the US government. This includes but is not limited to the list of words published by PEN America in May 2025. Topics of interest may include information literacy research that was already underway when new restrictions came into place or which may now be impossible to publish; work explicitly exploring the impact of this clampdown on how information literacy is shaped or operationalised, as well as research exploring censorship in non-US contexts.
Deadline for full papers: 1st June 2026
Special issue publication date: December 2026
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