[A2k] CFP Joint Issue IJCLP-AoIR -- Internet Convergences

[Rotenberg, Boris]

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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 furth=
er papers for a special issue on Internet regulation linked to the IRv7 Con=
ference ('Internet Convergences'). The selection committee - composed of th=
e editorial boards of the IJCLP and Matthew Allen (Curtin University of Tec=
hnology), Fay Sudweeks (Murdoch University) and Axel Bruns (Queensland Univ=
ersity of Technology) - will review and consider all submissions for public=
ation. We have already solicited several papers from the conference which a=
re in the process of being reviewed and would now encourage experts from al=
l 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 juris=
dictional authority of both sovereign nations and the international bodies =
to which those nations subscribe. In such a world, it was imagined, 'regula=
tion' would decline or become irrelevant. This characterisation, part of th=
e rhetorical promotion of the Internet in the 1990s, is wrong in two fundam=
ental ways. Firstly, laws and policies that seek to regulate the Internet h=
ave proliferated in recent years and demonstrate significant attention by n=
ational governments to the business of governing the Internet; equally glob=
al discussions to create international understandings of the Internet have =
also become more significant even if, for the moment, have been less fruitf=
ul than purely national legislation. Second, and at least as importantly, i=
t is now apparent that the Internet involves additional regulatory authorit=
ies users, systems 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 o=
f IJCLP, we bring together papers that explore aspects of regulation, gover=
nance and policy-making at all three levels - systemic, national and intern=
ational - 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 ar=
e stated on the IJCLP website. Submissions must be in English and should be=
 between 4-8,000 words in length.

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