<div dir="ltr"><br><div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr">FYI<div><div><br><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:center" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt">International
Journal of Communication<br><br><u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:center" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Call
for Papers <br>
Special Section on Net Neutrality<br><br><u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The Work of Internet Freedoms: Network Neutrality <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">and the Labors of Policy Advocacy in the U.S.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:center" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Special Section Editors<br><br>
Becky Lentz, McGill University <br>
Allison Perlman, University of California, Irvine<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:center" align="center"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Deadline for submissions: August 31, 2015<u></u><u></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">When the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) voted in February 2015 to reclassify broadband
under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, and thus to secure Network
Neutrality and the principle of nondiscrimination at its center, it delivered
an important victory to the millions of people who had insisted that strong
Network Neutrality protections were crucial for an open, democratic Internet.
This victory owed in part to the tremendous outpouring of public support for
Network Neutrality, which itself owed to the ongoing labors of community
organizers, issue campaigners, funders, scholar activists, public interest
lawyers and many others to make visible how issues of media policy
fundamentally affect issues of social justice and political change.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">For this special section of
the <i>International Journal of
Communication</i>, we seek articles that foreground the <i>multiple</i> labors involved in achieving policy victories like the
Network Neutrality Order. In this section, we aim to make visible the often <i>invisible</i> work required to effect lawmaking,
judicial rulings, and regulations in the public interest. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We specifically wish to
publish historically and theoretically informed articles that are attentive to examples
of multiple forms of advocacy work that include but are not limited to the
following: strategic research, community organizing and mobilizing, popular
education, issue campaigns, donor advising and support, lobbying, legal
interventions, regulatory filings, and public education campaigns. Also of
interest are historically and theoretically-informed papers on the political
economy of policy advocacy, especially those attentive to the multiple forms of
capital (financial, informational, reputational, cultural) required for
advocacy work. Of particular interest is research that documents the multiple
challenges involved in advocacy work on the Network Neutrality issue. In
addition, we seek analyses of the materials and artifacts used in organizing, mobilizing,
and lobbying for Network Neutrality, including studies of the rhetorical
appeals and visual culture deployed by advocates.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We additionally seek
theoretically informed analyses of how news sources—especially non-corporate,
civil society outlets—reported on and framed the Network Neutrality issue, as a
strategic feature of advocacy work.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Finally, we seek ideas for
book reviews relevant to the topic of the special section (maximum 1,500 words
including references; guidelines available). <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Note</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">: For
this special section, we will <i>not</i> be seeking
legal interpretations and policy analyses of the Network Neutrality debate
itself; sufficient work already exists in this area in media and communication
studies journals as well as law journals. Nor are we seeking normative papers
advancing solutions to achieve Network Neutrality. Instead, our focus is on
scholarship that foregrounds the varieties of work required to intervene <i>on behalf of</i> the public interest. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">If interested, please submit
full articles by <b>August 31, 2015</b>.
Articles should be no more than 8,000 words (all-inclusive) and should follow
the APA-6<sup>th</sup> Edition style guide. Articles should be submitted to </span><a href="http://ijoc.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">http://ijoc.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> and specify “Net Neutrality Special Section” in your
entry. For author guidelines, see </span><a href="http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/about/submissions#authorGuidelines" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/about/submissions#authorGuidelines</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt">. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Please direct any questions
about topics, formats, article length and expected submission standards to the
special section editors Becky Lentz (</span><a href="mailto:becky.lentz@mcgill.ca" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">becky.lentz@mcgill.ca</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt">) or Allison Perlman (</span><a href="mailto:aperlman@uci.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">aperlman@uci.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt">). <i>Be sure to
specify</i> “Net Neutrality Special Section” in your email subject line.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>
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