[governance] Fwd: [bestbits] Reminder: Deadline January 25 -- Call for Papers, Internet Policy Review: "Doing Internet Governance"

Thu Jan 14 11:38:22 EST 2016

May be of interest.
Deirdre

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From: Becky Lentz <roberta.lentz at mcgill.ca>
Date: 14 January 2016 at 12:27
Subject: Re: [bestbits] Reminder: Deadline January 25 -- Call for Papers,
Internet Policy Review: "Doing Internet Governance"
To: bestbits <bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>

fyi

Dear all,

Just a friendly reminder that the deadline for abstract submission is
January 25.

best regards
Francesca

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Francesca Musiani <
francesca.musiani at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Dear "STS meets IG" colleagues,
>
> 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
> http://policyreview.info/node/382. We hope that several of you will
> consider submitting! and please feel free to circulate widely.
>
> Kind regards
> Francesca
>
> --
> Special issue on 'Doing internet governance: practices, controversies,
> infrastructures, and institutions'
>
> *Call for papers of the Internet Policy Review*
> TOPIC & RELEVANCE
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
> SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
> FOCUS OF THE PAPERS
>
> 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:
>
>    -
>
>    *Internet governance theory*: how can STS inform theoretical
>    perspectives on internet governance?
>    -
>
>    *Controversies*: how do socio-technical internet-related controversies
>    reveal tensions and critical junctures of internet politics?
>    -
>
>    *Privatisation*: what are the practices of internet governance
>    privatisation? What does it mean for the internet as a socio-technical
>    phenomenon?
>    -
>
>    *Unintended consequences*: what are the examples of unintended
>    consequences of technology regulation and design that affect the openness,
>    security, and stability of the internet?
>    -
>
>    *Re-intermediation and delegation*: what are the forms of
>    re-intermediation of the “decentralised” system that is the internet? How
>    can we study them?
>    -
>
>    *Participatory governance*: how can STS help unpack the practices of
>    “multistakeholderism” and their potential effects (or lack thereof)?
>    -
>
>    *Infrastructures and architectures as governance arrangements*: how
>    can STS-informed approaches help us unveil the power and control structures
>    embedded in internet architecture?
>
> Submissions must be in clearly-written English. The *Internet Policy
> Review* 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.
> SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS
>
>    - Dmitry Epstein, Department of Communication, University of Illinois
>    at Chicago (dmitry at uic.edu)
>    - Christian Katzenbach, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet
>    and Society (katzenbach at hiig.de)
>    - Francesca Musiani, Institute for Communication Sciences,
>    CNRS/Paris-Sorbonne/UPMC; *Internet Policy Review* academic editor (
>    francesca.musiani at cnrs.fr)
>
> IMPORTANT DATES
>
> *12 November 2015:* Release of the Call for papers
>
> *25 January 2016*: Deadline for expression of interest and abstract
> submissions (500 word abstracts) via the form on the IPR website.
>
> *15 February*: Feedback / Invitation to submit full text submissions
>
> *25 April*: Full text submissions deadline. All details on text
> submissions can be found under: http://policyreview.info/authors
>
> *13 June*: Comprehensive peer review and feedback
>
> *11 July*: Re-submission deadline
>
> *5 September*: Publication of the special issue
>
> --
Francesca Musiani (ph.d.)

assistant research professor (*chargée de recherche*), CNRS, ISCC
<http://www.iscc.cnrs.fr/>
associate researcher, i3, CSI <http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/>, MINES ParisTech
co-chair, ESN-IAMCR <http://iamcr.org/s-wg/cctmc/esn>
academic editor, @PolicyR <http://policyreview.info/>
on the web <http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/People/musiani/> | on twitter
<https://twitter.com/franmusiani>

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