I've been meaning to post this for a while - a call for papers for the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy that's related to the Association of Internet Researchers conference I organised in September. For those who weren't able to make it to AoIR 2006, there's still some time to submit additional articles...
The International Journal of Communications Law and Policy and the Association of Internet Researchers is pleased to announce a call for further papers for a special issue on Internet regulation linked to the IR7 Conference ('Internet Convergences'). The selection committee - composed of the editorial board of the IJCLP and Matthew Allen (Curtin University of Technology), Fay Sudweeks (Murdoch University) and Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology) - will review and consider all submissions for publication. We have already received several papers from the conference, which are in the process of being reviewed, and would now encourage experts from all disciplines and nationalities to submit further papers for publication by 1 December 2006. Acceptance will be notified by the end of the year for publication in 2007 following strict double-blind peer review.
The special issue is defined as follows:
The Internet has been characterised as a communications technology that, in its global reach and empowerment of individual users, undermines the jurisdictional authority of both sovereign nations and the international bodies to which those nations subscribe. In such a world, it was imagined, 'regulation' would decline or become irrelevant. This characterisation, part of the rhetorical promotion of the Internet in the 1990s, is wrong in two fundamental ways. Firstly, laws and policies that seek to regulate the Internet have proliferated in recent years and demonstrate significant attention by national governments to the business of governing the Internet; equally global discussions to create international understandings of the Internet have also become more significant even if, for the moment, have been less fruitful than purely national legislation. Second, and at least as importantly, it is now apparent that the Internet involves additional regulatory authorities users, syst ems administrators, software writers and large corporations. If anything, therefore, the Internet can be said to involve increased, or at least more complex webs of, regulatory activity. In this special issue of IJCLP, we bring together papers that explore aspects of regulation, governance and policy-making at all three levels - systemic, national and international - so as to provide insights into network of network regulation.
All inquiries should be mailed to Matthew Allen (m.allen@curtin.edu.au) and Boris Rotenberg (boris_rotenberg@yahoo.it), final submissions to Simone F. Bonetti (simo.bonetti@tiscalinet.it). Formatting and other requirements are stated on the IJCLP website. Submissions must be in English and should be between 4-8,000 words in length.
