This Special Issue examines how public knowledge is produced, organized, verified, circulated, and contested within digitally networked environments. In contemporary society, information no longer moves only through formal institutions or traditional gatekeepers such as legacy news institutions. It is increasingly shaped by platforms, algorithms, databases, archives, automated systems, and participatory publics. These transformations raise important questions about how knowledge becomes publicly visible, how credibility is established, how information is retrieved and shared, and how digital infrastructures influence what people come to know and trust.

The Special Issue would invite short, accessible contributions that explore these issues across contexts such as journalism, media practice, libraries, archives, education, digital platforms, and civic communication.

The collection would explore these guide questions, such as, but not limited to:

• • • How is information produced and made publicly meaningful in a networked society?
    • What roles do platforms, search systems, metadata, and algorithmic visibility play in shaping public knowledge?
    • How do verification, documentation, preservation, and digital circulation affect the authority and accessibility of information?
    • In what ways do AI tools and automated systems reshape the production and interpretation of knowledge?
    • How do publics participate in the sharing, recirculation, and contestation of information in networked environments?
    • How might these changing conditions strengthen or fragment the knowledge infrastructures on which public life depends?

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This Special Issue aims to bring together contributions that reflect on the relationships among information systems, digital media,  as well as the social processes through which knowledge is made, maintained, and transformed.

Target Contributors

For this issue, we invite contributions from both the corporate and academic communities in the Philippines and beyond, particularly from individuals whose work aligns with the theme. These may include:

• • • Teaching personnel whose work engages information literacy, digital pedagogy, media education, knowledge production, or public communication
    • Corporate professionals whose work involves information management, digital platforms, media analytics, knowledge systems, content strategy, or AI-assisted communication
    • Journalists and media practitioners whose professional experience can speak to information production, verification, circulation, and public knowledge
    • Librarians, archivists, and information professionals whose work relates to documentation, metadata, preservation, discoverability, and access
    • Researchers and scholars in Information Science, Journalism, Media Studies, Communication, Library and Information Science, and related fields
    • Technology and platform professionals whose work intersects with search, algorithms, recommendation systems, moderation, or digital infrastructures
    • Policy and civic communication practitioners whose work addresses public information, misinformation, civic knowledge, and digital participation

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Author Instructions

All proposals should be submitted directly through the Information Matters’ platform, following the author’s instructions. Authors are encouraged to include illustrations with their texts. Submitted pieces should ideally be 1,000 words, aimed at a general audience, and should not contain traditional academic citations or reference lists. Instead, authors may embed links where appropriate.

Before submitting, please create an account at https://informationmatters.org. Once registered, create a post that will serve as your submission to the Special Issue. When submitting your article, make sure to designate “SI Info Production” as a tag. The texts will be published simultaneously on SSRN in a citable format with a DOI, volume, and issue number, and will be indexed in several publication databases.

For your writing reference, you can find recently published articles here: https://informationmatters.org/si-nformation-privilege-and-the-cultures-of-scholarly-communication/ 

Important Dates

CfP release: April 2026
Submission deadline: June 15, 2026
Full issue publication: June 2026
Publication of the special issue and indexing through SSRN: July 2026

Decisions and publication via Information Matters’ website: Typically within two weeks of submission

Questions

For questions and consultations regarding the Special Issue, please reach out to the guest editor:

Guest Editor

Janice Roman-Tamesis
Lyceum of the Philippines University, Manila
janice.roman@lpu.edu.ph