[Air-L] Conference and Special Issue CfP: Communication Rights in the Digital Age

[Minna Aslama]

Com­mu­nic­a­tion Rights in the Digital Age

International Conference organized by the Helsinki Media Policy Research
Group, the University of Helsinki, the ECREA Communication Law and Policy
Section and the Euromedia Research Group, and supported by the IAMCR
Communication Policy & Technology Section.

24–25 October 2019, Helsinki, Finland

Conference presenters will be invited to submit to a special issue of the
Journal of Information Policy, (www.jip-online.org).

Abstract submission deadline: 15 May 2019.


The rights-based perspective on ethical and political questions presented
by the new digital media has recently regained attention in academic and
political debates. Due to the importance of communication rights to
societies and democracy, it is imperative to understand how those rights
are defined, manifested, regulated, and monitored today. The realization of
communication rights is further shaped by economic, political and
socio-cultural situations. What do we know about these contexts? How can we
accumulate a better conceptual and empirical understanding of communication
rights? This conference will address the interplay of national and global,
universal and specific, characteristics of communication rights.

We are interested in analyses of different definitions of communication
rights; of policy and other actors defining these rights in national and
international contexts; and of current core issues or cases that pertain to
communication rights. We welcome conceptual and theoretical interventions
as well as empirical approaches.

Presenters at the conference will be invited to submit their completed
papers for review by the Journal of Information Policy (www.jip-online.org).
Now in its 9th year, the JIP brings contemporary scholarly research and
analysis of significant information policy issues to the attention of
policymakers in a timely fashion via an online format. The JIP is a
publication of the Institute for Information Policy at the Pennsylvania
State University. The JIP is an open-access journal accessible on the JSTOR
platform. Published works in the JIP are licensed under Creative Commons
Attribution, which means that all content is freely available immediately
upon publication without charge to the user or his/her institution.

Please see the detailed call for papers:
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/communication-rights-in-the-digital-age/call-for-papers


Key­note speaker:
Philip M. Napoli, James R. Shepley Professor of Public Policy, the Sanford
School of Public Policy, Duke University, United States.


Conference sub­mis­sion:
Please submit your proposal of max. 500 words, including your affiliation
and contact information, by 15 May 2019 to minna.aslama at helsinki.fi. You
will receive notification of acceptance by 15 June 2019.


Re­gis­tra­tion and fee:
Registration will be open 15 June through 15 October.
Registration fee: €100
Reduced student fee: €40

For more information and inquiries, please contact minna.aslama at helsinki.fi
and irina.khaldarova at helsinki.fi.

-- 
Dr. Minna Aslama Horowitz
@aslama
https://minnahorowitz.net/