D9.1: A Specification for FIDIS Journal

Title: EXISTING JOURNALS AND THE NEED FOR A FIDIS JOURNAL

Two steps were taken in order both to evaluate the need for a journal on identity in the Information Society and to position it among existing outlets.  First, we compiled a list of the major existing outlets for the sort of articles the proposed journal expects to publish.  To this end, FIDIS experts researching identity within different disciplines were approached and asked to provide a list of leading publications in their area of expertise.  The compiled list is provided below (section 3.1) and is organised according to experts’ domains.  Following this, we conducted a high-level review of the literature in order to assess the state of the art in research on identity in the Information Society.  Key findings emerging from that analysis are presented in section 3.2.