[Air-L] CFP Policy & Internet Special Issue – The Regulation Turn?

[Paul Rich]

sounds great...very timely.  Paul

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 12:32 AM Jonathon Hutchinson via Air-L <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> **With apologies for cross-posting**
>
> Dear Friends and Colleagues,
>
> Please find below the Call for Papers for the upcoming Policy & Internet
> Special Issue in the Internet Regulation Turn.
>
> For any additional information, please contact me at
> jonathon.hutchinson at sydney.edu.au<mailto:jonathon.hutchinson at sydney.edu.au
> >.
>
>
> Policy & Internet Journal
> Special Issue – Issue 1, 2022
>
> Special Issue Editors:
> Jonathon Hutchinson, University of Sydney
> Milica Stilinivoc, University of Sydney
>
> The Internet Regulation Turn? Policy, internet and technology
> With the recent media focus on the regulation of social media platforms
> within our society, users, citizens, human rights advocacy groups,
> policymakers and content producers have all questioned the validity of
> these communication technologies. Do these technologies offer ease of
> connectivity, or do they have the potential to be weaponised and
> misappropriated to further political agendas, disrupt democratic processes,
> and abuse an individual's right to (or assumption of) privacy? Recently, we
> have observed governments calling on platforms to account for their
> misalignment with local media markets. Regulators are asking platform
> providers for increased transparency into their distribution processes.
> Advocacy groups are asking for increased visibility. The custodians of the
> internet (Gillespie, 2018) are asking for better tools to manage their
> communities. At the same time, users are questioning the uses of their data.
>
> Nonetheless, our societies are enjoying the benefits of our contemporary
> communication technologies for a variety of reasons. We see new markets
> emerging based on platform economic models, increased connectivity in times
> of physical isolation, new trends and connections are emerging, new
> cultural conventions are being forged between disparate individuals, and
> friends and families enjoy the increased ease and connectivity of
> communicating with their loved ones.
>
> To say ‘if you do not pay for the product, you are the product’ (Orlowski,
> 2020) grossly misrepresents the entirety of the social dilemma we have
> found ourselves in – a hyper- commercialised and politicised internet of
> the 2020s. To combat this, we are observing several versions of a
> ‘Balkinized splinternet’ (Lemley, 2020) emerging, where nations and users
> are designing and creating their own version of what was conceived as a way
> to share and enjoy information across a connected and networked
> infrastructure. These new internet formations are accompanied by a variety
> of emerging economic models, such as cryptocurrency for example, to signify
> a moment of change has arrived (Swartz, 2020). By looking backwards, we are
> sometimes able to understand how we will move forward.
>
> This special issue of Policy & Internet calls on scholars, practitioners,
> policymakers and students of the internet to rethink our internet, its
> policy and the surrounding communication technology of our contemporary
> society. We are looking for papers that examine the current social and
> communication dilemmas of the internet, and that map out the trajectory of
> Policy & Internet for the next five years. What will internet researchers
> be examining in three years? Has the idea of the ‘nation state’ returned
> within the debates surrounding ‘big tech’ giants? What will the civil
> society look like in five years? What does effective policy consider for
> the future of ourselves and our data in the several emerging versions of
> the internet?
>
>
> Topics can be related, but not limited, to:
>
>   *   Internet studies
>   *   Platformisation
>   *   Everyday social media
>   *   Algorithmic media
>   *   Internet governance
>   *   The ‘regulation turn’ of the internet
>   *   News distribution
>   *   Platform accountability
>   *   Critical race studies
>   *   Civil unrest and the internet
>   *   Queer internet
>   *   The Internet of Things (IoT)
>   *   Smart Devices/Smart Cities
>   *   Robots and/or automation
>   *   E-surveillance and e-governance
>   *   Design, coding and development of the internet and its protocols
>
> Please send through your title and 150-200 word abstract to Jonathon
> Hutchinson [jonathon.hutchinson at sydney.edu.au] and Milly Stilinovic [
> milica.stilinovic at sydney.edu.au] with the subject line: Policy & Internet
> Special Issue by May 15 2021.
>
> Timeline
>
> May 15 – Abstracts due
>
> May 31 – Notification of Accepted Papers
>
> September 30 – Full Papers Due
>
> November 30 – Final Revisions Due
>
>
> DR JONATHON HUTCHINSON | Senior Lecturer Online Communication and Media
> Department of Media and Communication | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
> Postgraduate Research Coordinator
> Editor, Policy & Internet Journal [
> https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/19442866]
> Treasurer of Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA)
> Secretary of International Association of Public Media Research (IAMPR)
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