Hello, AoIR, On behalf of my co-editors, Karla Badillo-Urquiola and Jason Yip, I invite you to submit papers to a special issue that we are curating on Justice-Centered Design for Youth for the International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction. *Papers are due May 13*. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions. Full CFP and timeline below: CFP: Special Issue on Justice-Centered Design for Youth, International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-child-computer-in... There is no shortage of people who care about issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and ethics in the Child-Computer Interaction (CCI) community. Researcher philosophies influence the commitments made in scholarly efforts, which in turn influence a research project’s underlying ethically-oriented tenets. From engaging diverse, marginalized populations, to aiming to empower youth, to implementing child-centered approaches, to designing intentionally equitable, inclusive artifacts, the CCI community has made these commitments clear for almost two decades. Yet, we also know there exists many opportunities for the community to learn and grow. To consider such issues, researchers in our community have organized panels and workshops that (1) address ethics and equity and inclusion in CCI research more broadly and (2) target specific aspects of these issues (e.g., how technologies affect the participation of marginalized youth; designing technologies for children with special needs; including children in the design process]). And while some of these—plus keynote speeches and position papers—integrate social justice into their discussions around how we might orient and conduct our research, there has yet to be a central focus on *justice*. Building on and continuing past CCI research efforts, this call for publications is an opportunity to bring together scholars from a range of backgrounds and experiences who are all committed to doing work with *youth that is justice-oriented.* *Special issue information:* What do we mean by justice-centered or justice-oriented? At Interaction Design and Children 2021 we explored this concept through a workshop focusing on three themes: - *What does it mean for us (within the CCI community) to be justice-centered?* - *Why should we be justice-centered with youth? What is at stake?* - *How can we in the CCI community be justice-centered?* Through this work, we conceptualize justice as social, political, and action-driven. It consists not only of critically understanding what is fair or equitable but also intentionally, reflexively working to correct what is inequitable, both within and beyond the research engagements themselves, and spanning ecological system levels (i.e., individual, micro, meso, exo, and macro). We draw from a range of existing literature on justice (e.g., critical theories of learning, identity, and pedagogy, critical race theory, intersectionality, critical pedagogy, Latinx critical theory) to collectively consider how our actions might actively work against the perpetuation of inequities. In this call, we bring together an interdisciplinary team of scholars and leaders working across research areas with youth. We all share a deep commitment to learning, unlearning, and justice for youth. We welcome and encourage researchers in this cross-disciplinary field to submit original research articles reporting experiments, case studies, reviews, as well as theoretical work investigating the role of justice for children. In particular, review contributions are invited on (but not limited to) the following topics: - Theories pertaining to justice-centered design - New methods and techniques for achieving justice-centered design - Groups of youth: infants, children, teens, young adults - Relationships between concepts equity, justice, empowerment, etc. - Justice-centered design within current youth technology trends - The intersection of justice-centered design and technology implementation for youth - Concerns and ethical issues about justice-centered design - Roles of identity (gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.) within justice-centered design for youth - Future trends of justice-centered design for youth *Manuscript submission information:* *Deadlines*: - Deadline for manuscript submissions: May 13, 2022 - Notification to authors (first round): July 18, 2022 - Deadline for revised manuscripts: September 16, 2022 - Final notification to authors: October 14, 2022 - Editorial acceptance deadline (camera-ready): October 26, 2022 *Peer Review Process:* Each article will be reviewed by at least two external and independent reviewers. The reviewers will have the necessary expertise to properly assess the submission. Submissions will be assessed on their relevance to the themes of the special issue and the overall potential to meaningfully contribute to the special issue. -- *Priya Kumar, PhD* (she/her <https://www.mypronouns.org/>) University of Maryland | College of Information Studies (iSchool <http://ischool.umd.edu/>) pkumar12@umd.edu | priyakumar.org* | *@DearPriya <https://twitter.com/dearpriya>