I am thrilled to announce that Peter Johnson and I just published the 20th anniversary special issue of The Journal of Community Informatics. As we explained in our editorial, the first issue of The Journal of Community Informatics was published by Michael Gurstein on October 1, 2004. Since then the journal has remained an open access peer reviewed journal featuring contributions at the intersection of community informatics research, practice, and policy.
Earlier this year, we announced a call for papers to celebrate the last twenty years of the journal and invited short papers on any of the following topics:
- the past, present, and future of community informatics;
- the impact of their contributions to the journal;
- CI as a field of research and practice;
- critical reflections on and interrogations of the need for community informatics;
- the role of JoCI and other open access publications in the scholarly communication ecosystem; and other related topics.
We are excited to feature nine essays in the special issue from leaders in the field of community informatics. As we describe in our editorial,
“The articles are presented in an arc beginning with reflections on contributions to CI over the past twenty years (Schuler, 2023; Gomez, 2024; McMahon & Zaman, 2024, & Mehra, 2024), continuing with present-day insights building upon this history (Smith, Shade, & Clement, 2024; Nemer, 2024; Stoecker, 2024) and concluding with a vision statement and opportunities to imagine the future of community informatics (Markazi et. al, 2024; Foth, 2024).”
We invite you to read the full special issue in its entirety online.