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Our December 2023 issue of New Review of Information Networking (NRIN) deepens and focuses on several innovative conversations occurring in the fields connected to research in library & information science, social media, and higher education. Article one, Anzano-Oto, Vázquez-Toledo, and Latorre-Cosculluela’s Digital reality in Compulsory Secondary Education: uses, purposes and profiles in social networks, explores the time youth spend engaging with social media networks. Via an exploration of youth connectivity profiles, the authors draw attention to the many tradeoffs young people make as they make choices about how to spend their time.
Welani, Msosa, and Chipeta extend the topic of information practices to their work with public, networked, information systems in Malawi: Analysis of a Records Management Systems at the Northern Region Water Board in Malawi. With a multi-pronged qualitative approach, the team makes visible the many challenges of managing critical records in Malawi.
The final two articles represent NRIN’s recent efforts to publish high quality, editor reviewed articles in emergent areas across the many fields associated with the journal’s coverage. In Information Seeking Behavior and Information Blockades: An Antithetical Relationship, Salik Parveaz and Asif Khan explore information seeking practices in Kashmir, India. Their in-depth exploration of Kashmiri information blockades highlights the impact on users in geopolitically sensitive contexts.
The researchers represented in our December issue extend the boundaries of the journal’s coverage toward new international contexts and creative engagement with user practices. NRIN is looking to expand its coverage of innovative approaches, novel settings, and the inclusion of work from graduate students as it looks toward building issues for 2024.
Peer-reviewed research articles
Digital reality in Compulsory Secondary Education: uses, purposes and profiles in social networks
Authors: Silvia Anzano-Oto, Sandra Vázquez-Toledo, and Cecilia Latorre-Cosculluela
Malawi: Analysis of a Records Management Systems at the Northern Region Water Board in Malawi
Authors: Welani Msosa, Winner Dominic Chawinga, and George Chipeta
Editor-reviewed research articles and reviews
Information Seeking Behavior and Information Blockades: An Antithetical Relationship
Authors: Salik Parveaz and Asif Khan
As always, if you are engaged in research exploring networks of information, NRIN would love to hear from you. Our Instructions for Authors outline the topics and process for submitting an article for review. If you have questions or wish to bounce ideas off the editor, please review our Aims and Scope and feel free to contact me at the e-mail address below. We particularly welcome any colleagues interested in serving as reviewers and invite you to see our recent additions to our editorial board. We have some fantastic, new representation.
With best wishes for 2024,