[Air-L] Internet in Global Media Policy #IAMCR2015 Montreal, 13-16.07.2015

[Gerard Goggin]

Dear AoIRists,

Those attending IAMCR in Montreal this week may be interested in various
Global Media Policy WG sessions with focus on Internet governance, media
policy, and mapping - see below.

Cheers,

Gerard Goggin


GLOBAL MEDIA POLICY (GMP) WORKING GROUP PROGRAM
IAMCR Montreal 2015, UQAM, 13-16 July 2015, http://congresiamcr.uqam.ca/

 
Session 1: Tues 14 July, 16.00-17.30 hrs – Room DS-1545
Internet Governance: Updates & Critical Takes on a Policy Puzzle (Joint
Session GMP & Taskforce on Media and Communications Policy)
 

Session 2: Wed 15 July, 09.00-10.30 hrs – Room DS-1545
Mapping as Relevant Knowledge? Research, Politics, Practicalities
 

Session 3: Wednesday 15 July, 14.00-15.30 hrs – Room DS-1545
Mapping Communications Governance – International Collaborations and
Practical Challenges
 

Session 4: Wednesday 15 July, 16.00-17.30 hrs – Room DS-1545
Business Meeting of Global Media Policy Working Group
 

Session 5: Thursday 16 July 2015, 09.00-10.30 hrs - DS1525
Gendering Global Media Policy: Critical Perspectives on ‘Digital Agendas’
— In memory of Dr. Heike Jensen (Communication Policy and Technology
Section & Global Media Policy Working Group)
 

Full details of GMP program below & at http://bit.ly/1KIWZMg


Global Media Policy Working Group  program IAMCR Montréal 2015
Session 1: Tues 14 July
Slot Code: GMP-T3a
Time: 16.00-17.30 hrs
Room:  DS-1545

Title:  Internet Governance: Updates & Critical Takes on a Policy Puzzle
(Joint Session GMP & Taskforce on Media and Communications Policy)
Chair: Jeremy Shtern (Ryerson University)

The Internet is central to contemporary media, but its governance is
complex, dynamic, and dispersed across different arena. This interactive
session will feature latest updates and analyses from scholars and
activists at the frontlines of global Internet governance, with a
particular focus on the different civil society, policy, and research
agendas in play. Topics will include: ICANN/IANA stewardship transition;
Global Conference on Cyberspace; Internet Governance Forum; Internet
Social Forum; Net Mundial; WSIS +10; civil society agendas.
 

Participants:
Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam)
James Losey (Stockholm University)
Mallory Knodel (Association for Progressive Communications)
Stephanie Perrin (University of Toronto)
Julie Pohle (SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Arne Hintz (Cardiff University)
 

Session 2: Wed 15 July
Slot Code: GMP-W1a
Time:  09.00-10.30 hrs
Room:  DS-1545

Title: Mapping as Relevant Knowledge? Research, Politics, Practicalities
Chair: Claudia Padovani (University of Padova)
Given the number of ‘mapping projects’ that have emerged over the past few
years related to communication and digital policies, this session reflects
on two intertwined questions they pose:

* how relevant is all this mapping to policy and advocacy engagement? To
what extent, and in what conditions, do these initiatives may actually
contribute to more participatory practices, better informed policy
decisions, and better media (typicallly the common goals of different
mapping initiatives).
* what of the practical challenges in the establishment and development of
these initiatives: platform population, content generation and sharing,
sustainability of projects (expert knowledge, skills, human and financial
resources), language diversity and accessibility, comprehensiveness or
gaps in policy information and analysis.

The session will feature interventions and discussions from leading policy
scholars and experts. A key aim is to share ideas on how to better
integrate critical research into existing initiatives, and develop forms
of cooperation across these and other emergent forms of policy knowledge.

Participants:
Arne Hintz (Cardiff University) and Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney)
­­— IAMCR Mapping Media Policy
Samantha Grassle & Stefaan Verhulst (Govlab, New York University)
Annabelle Sreberny (SOAS, University of London)
Francesca Musiani (French National Centre for Scientific Research)
Marjan de Bruin (University of West Indies)
Robin Mansell (London School of Economics)

Session 3: Wednesday 15 July
Slot Code: GMP-W2a
Time: 14.00-15.30 hrs
Room: DS-1545

Title: Mapping Communications Governance – International Collaborations
and Practical Challenges

Internet governance is increasingly complex, fragmented and hard to
navigate. A number of projects have emerged to map this complex landscape
and identify issues, existing responses and policies, actors and actions.
These include, among others, the European GIPO; Mapping Global Media
Policy; the NETmundial Initiative. While these efforts serve different
needs and audiences, there is a need to coordinate and collaborate. This
session will reflect on the current state of play and conduct an
examination of whether these mapping efforts can provide a joined-up
infrastructure of both research and information exchange. The session,
designed as a workshop, will address questions surrounding mapping best
practices, effective methods to develop taxonomies, how to ensure
interoperability and coordination among Mapping projects, and effective
methods to populate data.

Participants:
Arne Hintz (Cardiff University), Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney),
Claudia Padovani (University of Padova), Marc Raboy (McGill University) —
Mapping Global Media Policy
Samantha Grassle and Stefaan Verhulst (GovLab, New York University) —
Netmundial Solutions Map
 

Session 4: Wednesday 15 July
Slot Code: GMP-W3a
Time:  16.00-17.30 hrs
Room:  DS-1545
Title: Business Meeting of Global Media Policy Working Group
Chair: Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney)
 

Session 5: Thursday 16 July 2015
Slot Code: CPT-TH1a
Time:  09.00-10.30 hrs
Room:  DS1525

Title:  Gendering Global Media Policy: Critical Perspectives on ‘Digital
Agendas’ — - In memory of Dr. Heike Jensen (CPT and the Global Media
Policy Working Group)

Convenors: Claudia Padovani (University of Padova) and Leslie Shade
(University of Toronto)
Chair: Lisa McLaughlin ( <mailto:mclauglm at miamioh.edu>Miami University)
Discussant: Jo Pierson (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Twenty years have passed since the international community committed to
foster gender equity in communication by increasing ‘the participation and
access of women to expression and decision-making in and through the media
and new technologies of communication” (Beijing 1995, Platform for Action
of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Section J). Much work remains to
improve persistent gender inequalities across societies and major
transformations – in technology and infrastructures, normative frameworks
and policy arrangements - that have marked communication landscapes
globally. 2015 also marks ten years since the World Summit on Information
Society, a relevant moment in international debates about digital
governance. This offers opportunities to the scholarly community and other
stakeholders to assess the progress made in relation to the WSIS Plan of
Action and to critically discuss gender-aware approaches to current trends
in communication governance.

This panel features expert speakers from diverse geo-cultural contexts,
from academia and the advocacy and policy sector, to address questions
related to ‘digital agendas’: overall frameworks and strategies for the
development and implementation of digital policies being adopted in most
regional and national contexts. It is now crucial to assess if and how
such strategies live up to the commitment, made twenty years ago, of
fostering women’s participation in communication and of mainstreaming
gender across all sectors.
These issues relate to the 2015 conference theme, as gendered-aspects of
communication policies touch upon dynamics of empowerment, disempowerment,
cultural hegemony and forms of resistance. The panel also contributes
toward IAMCR’s collaboration with the Unesco-promoted Global Alliance on
Media and Gender (Gamag) whose aim is to contribute to a research agenda
and to produce policy-relevant knowledge based on sound theoretical
approaches and gender-sensitive analytical frameworks.

Presentations:
Claudia Padovani (University of Padova): Gendering European Communication
Governance: The Challenge of Gender Mainstreaming Twenty Years After
Beijing.
Leslie Regan Shade (University of Toronto): Missing in Action: Gender in
Canada’s Digital Agenda.
Anita Gurumurty (IT for Change): Whose Digital Agendas? Unpacking What
Counts for Policy.
Anne Webb (Independent consultant Gender research design, training and
management):Information and Communication Technology in a Gender
Inequality Context: Research in Africa and the Middle East.
Fiona Martin and Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney): Reconstructing the
Ubiquitous End-User: The New Politics of Gender and Media Policy in
Digital Government Services in Australia.



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Gerard Goggin
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Professor of Media and Communications
Department of Media and Communications
University of Sydney

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