[Air-L] Final notice/reminder: International Journal of Communication Call for Papers (Special Section on Net Neutrality) - deadline August 31, 2015

[Becky Lentz]

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> 
> International Journal of Communication
> Call for Papers 
> Special Section on Net Neutrality
> The Work for Internet Freedoms: Network Neutrality in the U.S.
> and the Labors of Policy Advocacy
>  
> Special Section Editors
> 
> Becky Lentz, McGill University
> Allison Perlman, University of California, Irvine
> 
> Deadline for submissions:  August 31, 2015
>  
> When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted in February 2015 to
> reclassify broadband under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, and thus to
> secure Network Neutrality and the principle of nondiscrimination at its
> center, it delivered an important victory to the millions of people who had
> insisted that strong Network Neutrality protections were crucial for an open,
> democratic Internet. This victory owed in large part to the tremendous
> outpouring of public support for Network Neutrality, which itself owed to the
> ongoing labors of community organizers, issue campaigners, funders, scholar
> activists, public interest lawyers and many others to make visible how issues
> of media policy fundamentally affect issues of social justice and political
> change.
>  
> For this special section, we seek articles that foreground these and other
> multiple labors involved in achieving policy victories like the Network
> Neutrality Order. We aim to make visible the often invisible work required to
> effect lawmaking, judicial rulings, and regulations in the public interest.
>  
> In this issue of the International Journal of Communication we take a
> capacious approach to the study of media advocacy labor. We encourage
> submissions that address this topic from a range of perspectives and seek
> diverse methodological approaches to the study of media advocacy. Submissions
> could address topics ranging from the role of philanthropic foundations in
> supporting advocacy labor to John Oliver¹s segment on Network Neutrality, Code
> Pink¹s public protests, or Free Press¹ National Conferences on Media Reform.
> Our goal is to provide an interdisciplinary look at the many labors of media
> advocacy and to foreground the ³how² and the ³why² of how media advocacy
> operates.
>  
> We specifically wish to publish historically and theoretically informed
> articles that are attentive to examples of multiple forms of advocacy labor.
> Topics could include (but are not limited to):
> ·      Investigations into the political economy of advocacy and to the many
> forms of capital (financial, informational, reputational, and/or cultural)
> that it requires
> 
> ·      Analyses of the cultural artifacts and performances that constitute
> advocacy work, such as educational videos, street theater/public
> demonstrations, political satire, op-ed columns,
> 
> ·      Examinations of the various strategies deployed by media advocacy
> groups, collectives, and networks, such as community organizing, popular
> education campaigns, lobbying, regulatory filings, strategic research, and
> policy advocacy pedagogy
> 
> ·      Examinations of the intersections between media policy advocacy and
> social justice activism
> 
> ·      Studies of how various news sources, including non-corporate and civil
> society outlets, reported on and framed advocacy work
> 
>  
> Finally, we seek ideas for book reviews relevant to the topic of the special
> section (maximum 1,500 words including references; guidelines available).
>  
> Note: For this special section, we will not be seeking legal interpretations
> and policy analyses of the Network Neutrality issue itself; sufficient work
> already exists in this area in media, technology, and communication studies
> journals as well as law journals. Nor are we seeking normative papers
> advancing solutions to achieve Network Neutrality. Instead, our focus is on
> scholarship that foregrounds the processes and varieties of work required to
> intervene on behalf of the public interest in the Network Neutrality debate.
>  
> If interested, please submit full articles by August 31, 2015. Articles should
> be no more than 8,000 words (all-inclusive) and should follow the APA-6th
> Edition style guide. Articles should be submitted to http://ijoc.org
> <http://ijoc.org>  and specify ³Net Neutrality Special Section² in your entry.
> For author guidelines, see
> http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
> <http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/about/submissions#authorGuidelines> .
>  
> Please direct any questions about topics, formats, article length and expected
> submission standards to the special section editors Becky Lentz
> (becky.lentz at mcgill.ca <mailto:becky.lentz at mcgill.ca> ) and Allison Perlman
> (aperlman at uci.edu <mailto:aperlman at uci.edu> ).  Be sure to specify ³Net
> Neutrality Special Section² in your email subject line.