<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div>fyi</div></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><br></div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear all, <br><br>Just a friendly reminder that the deadline for abstract submission is January 25.<br><br></div>best regards<br></div>Francesca<br><br><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Francesca Musiani <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:francesca.musiani@gmail.com" target="_blank">francesca.musiani@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br><div dir="ltr">Dear "STS meets IG" colleagues,<br><br>Dmitry Epstein,
Christian Katzenbach and myself are very happy to share with you the call for papers for
the Internet Policy Review that, as anticipated, follows up to the similarly-titled panel that we organized at IR16 in Phoenix. Please find the call below and at this link <a href="http://policyreview.info/node/382" target="_blank">http://policyreview.info/node/382</a>. We hope that several of you will consider submitting! and please feel free to circulate widely.<br><br>Kind regards<br>Francesca<br><br>--<br><div>
<h1>Special issue on 'Doing internet governance: practices, controversies, infrastructures, and institutions'</h1></div>
<p align="center"><b>Call for papers of the <i>Internet Policy Review</i></b></p><h2>TOPIC & RELEVANCE</h2><p>Internet governance is gaining attention in the post-Snowden era,
which increased distrust of formal government institutions and their
‘dangerous liaisons’ with the private sector. User-driven,
technology-embedded, decentralised approaches keep on seeing the light:
in contracts, currency, privacy protection, just to name a few. Politics
and traditional purveyors of authority negotiate ways of readjusting to
the changing environment. Thus, investigating the “ordering”
(Flyverbom, 2011) and governing processes as they relate to the network
of networks is both timely and important.</p><p>Traditionally, when talking about Internet Governance researchers and
practitioners refer to the new organisations and institutions that have
been explicitly established to regulate, discuss, and negotiate issues
of internet governance (e.g. ICANN, WSIS, IGF). Recently, authors have
criticised this institutional focus, arguing the need for a more
comprehensive conceptualisation of internet governance (DeNardis, 2012;
Eeten/Mueller, 2013; Musiani, 2014; Hofmann et al., 2014). Among these
recent developments, a small set of publications has drawn on
perspectives from Science and Technology Studies (STS) to rethink and
substantiate questions of ordering and governing the net. These
contributions highlight the day-to-day, mundane practices that
constitute internet governance, take into account the plurality and
‘‘networkedness’’ of devices and arrangements involved, and investigate
the invisibility, pervasiveness, and apparent agency of the digital
infrastructure itself (Musiani, 2014). Internet governance, in this
view, is not only negotiated in dedicated institutions; the doing of
internet governance more broadly consists in practices and controversies
of the design, regulation, and use of material infrastructures. In this
way, STS-informed perspectives are increasingly instrumental for
challenging and expanding our understanding and for informing our
examination of ordering and governing processes in the digital realm.</p><h2>SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE</h2><p>This special issue seeks to nurture this nascent interest by
pioneering a conversation on the governance of digitally networked
environments from an STS-informed perspective and, more broadly, from
perspectives that highlight the role of design, infrastructures, and
informal communities of practice in governance.</p><p>First, this issue will touch upon how the norms shaping the
provision, design and usage of the internet are negotiated, de- and
re-stabilised, and subject to controversies. Second, it will open up
new, STS-informed perspectives on digital uses and practices, delving
into the variety of ways in which they may be an integral part of
today’s internet governance -- not only because such practices reflect
belonging and commitment to a community, but because they allow issues
of sovereignty, autonomy and liberty to come into play. Finally,
expanding the notion of governance in internet governance through the
conceptual tool-set of STS may open this field to meaningful
contributions from scholars studying constitutional aspects of
technology design and use, which are typically excluded from traditional
internet governance literature.</p><h2>FOCUS OF THE PAPERS</h2><p>We invite papers that share a strong conceptual interest in
understanding processes of ordering and governing the internet as a core
infrastructure of our daily lives. More focused paper topics may
include, but in no way are limited to, the following:</p><ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li><p><b>Internet governance theory</b>: how can STS inform theoretical perspectives on internet governance?</p></li><li><p><b>Controversies</b>: how do socio-technical internet-related controversies reveal tensions and critical junctures of internet politics?</p></li><li><p><b>Privatisation</b>: what are the practices of internet
governance privatisation? What does it mean for the internet as a
socio-technical phenomenon?</p></li><li><p><b>Unintended consequences</b>: what are the examples of
unintended consequences of technology regulation and design that affect
the openness, security, and stability of the internet?</p></li><li><p><b>Re-intermediation and delegation</b>: what are the forms of re-intermediation of the “decentralised” system that is the internet? How can we study them?</p></li><li><p><b>Participatory governance</b>: how can STS help unpack the practices of “multistakeholderism” and their potential effects (or lack thereof)?</p></li><li><p><b>Infrastructures and architectures as governance arrangements</b>: how can STS-informed approaches help us unveil the power and control structures embedded in internet architecture?</p></li></ul><p>Submissions must be in clearly-written English. The <i>Internet Policy Review</i>
is an open access, short-form journal. Full papers are requested to be
around 30,000 characters (5,000 words) in length, to encourage concise
and parsimonious discussion of core issues.</p><h2>SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS</h2><ul><li>Dmitry Epstein, Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago (<a href="mailto:dmitry@uic.edu" target="_blank">dmitry@uic.edu</a>)</li><li>Christian Katzenbach, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (<a href="mailto:katzenbach@hiig.de" target="_blank">katzenbach@hiig.de</a>)</li><li>Francesca Musiani, Institute for Communication Sciences, CNRS/Paris-Sorbonne/UPMC; <i>Internet Policy Review</i> academic editor (<a href="mailto:francesca.musiani@cnrs.fr" target="_blank">francesca.musiani@cnrs.fr</a>)</li></ul><h2>IMPORTANT DATES</h2><p><b>12 November 2015:</b> Release of the Call for papers</p><p><b>25 January 2016</b>: Deadline for expression of interest and abstract submissions (500 word abstracts) via the form on the IPR website.<br></p><p><b>15 February</b>: Feedback / Invitation to submit full text submissions</p><p><b>25 April</b>: Full text submissions deadline. All details on text submissions can be found under: <a href="http://policyreview.info/authors" target="_blank">http://policyreview.info/authors</a></p><p><b>13 June</b>: Comprehensive peer review and feedback</p><p><b>11 July</b>: Re-submission deadline</p><p><b>5 September</b>: Publication of the special issue</p><span class=""></span><br></div></blockquote></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Francesca Musiani (ph.d.)<br><br><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0Bw1qF6P9GtTrb0hzdGF6UGc2VVU&export=download" height="95" width="96"><br>assistant research professor (<i>chargée de recherche</i>), CNRS, <a href="http://www.iscc.cnrs.fr/" target="_blank">ISCC</a> <br>associate researcher, i3, <a href="http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/" target="_blank">CSI</a>, MINES ParisTech<br></div>co-chair, <a href="http://iamcr.org/s-wg/cctmc/esn" target="_blank">ESN-IAMCR</a> <br></div><div>academic editor, <a href="http://policyreview.info/">@PolicyR</a><br></div><div>on the <a href="http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/People/musiani/" target="_blank">web</a> | on <a href="https://twitter.com/franmusiani" target="_blank">twitter</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></span></body></html>