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Description Since its inception, the digital humanities has considered the question “what is it to be human in relation to machines in the digital age?” This issue of *Open Information Science *asks for papers that consider how we can understand “digital wellness” as part of the ongoing inquiry into what acts, representations, and understandings exist around human-ness in the digital era. Particularly, this volume seeks to explore the possibilities of digital wellness provided through a range of disciplines and forms. We invite papers which consider architectures, platforms, and diverse disciplinary engagements with the opportunities and challenges surrounding digital wellness: Possible topics include but are not limited to: - How are search engines addressing needs for wellness? - How do literary arts engage wellness literacies through multimodal creations? - How does the digital self interface with wellness? - How do digital borders interface with geographic borders towards impacting human wellness? - How does data creation and visualization impact user wellness? - How do digital formats and texts embrace animals, earth terrain, and environmental conditions towards understandings of wellness? - How is wellness conceived as integrated with or external to digital systems? - How do corporate digital organizational systems influence our notion of the digital person as imbricated in capital (in Multinational or Local companies) - How do digital wealth and investing systems inform our notions of the human and the circuit? - How do digital visual formats rearrange or constrain our conceptions of the human? - How do youth coding programs (like Hour of Code and Family Code Night) affect educational and familial relationships to the human as code? - How are tensions around big data balanced against an increasing number of “micro-forms”? How to Submit Submissions are welcome which attend to the following topics’ connections to wellness: - Biotechnology’s visualization of wellness - Computational approaches to wellness - Processing, designing, modeling, implementing wellness - Digital Rights Movements, Open Access, Curation, Data - Affect - Embodied Digital Culture - Archives - Gaming and Simulation - Scale - Networks - Project-based Learning - Relationships between Humanism, Post-Humanism, Earth Matter and Sea/Liquid Life - Distributed Work and Workplace Wellness - Links between the Virtual and the Local - Information Ethics and Wellness - Digital Sound and Wellness - Digital Wellness and Social Justice - Digital Wellness across Racial, Ethnic, Gendered, and Classed Borders - Meditation, Mindfulness, and Relaxation in the Digital Era Guest Editor *Valerie Karno <https://harrington.uri.edu/meet/valerie-karno/>*, Director, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, University of Rhode Island Please send 1-2 page Abstracts by June 1, 2019 to [log in to unmask] (Small extensions can be granted upon request) Papers will be due by *October 1, 2019.* For Journal Description see: https://www.degruyter.com/page/1940 -- Dr. Valerie Karno, J.D., PhD. Director, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies University of Rhode Island ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BOSTONDH list, click the following link: https://listserv.neu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=BOSTONDH