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CALL FOR PAPERS
7TH AOIR CONFERENCE - INTERNET CONVERGENCES
The International Journal of Communications Law and Policy (IJCLP) 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 IRv7 Conference
('Internet Convergences'). The selection committee - composed of the editorial
boards 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 solicited 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 1st 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 follow:
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, sys!
tems 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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and Boris
Rotenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), final submissions to Simone F. Bonetti ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]). 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.
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