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Join us for a Webinar on how to publish in IG – February 17, 2020

Farzaneh Badii is organizing a webinar to discuss how to get published in internet governance. Her initiative was driven by real questions that many of us face at the beginning and throughout our academic careers: What is the right target publication for a particular piece? When to know that a piece is ready to go? How to deal with negative reviews? And more.

To explore those questions, Farzaneh has put together an exciting panel of established scholars in the field coming from different disciplines. Now we want to invite you to participate in this event that will take place online.

What: Webinar on how to publish in IG

Who: You in a conversation with Alison Gillwald, Francesca Musiani, Milton Mueller, and Scott Shackelford 

When: Monday, February 17, 2020 at 15:00/3:00PM UTC

Where: Online, using Zoom (you can join online or call a local number) 

If you are interested in participating, please register at the following link: http://tiny.cc/publishIG

Hope you will find this interesting and hope to see you there!

Isadora Hellegren News, Past Annual Symposia

2019 Annual Symposium Programme (Berlin, Germany)

The GigaNet Reception

Sunday, November 24, 18:00-20:00
Villa Rixdorf Restaurant, Richardplatz 6, Berlin
(15 minute walk from the Estrel Conference Center)

This reception has been generously sponsored by ICANN.

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The GigaNet 2019 Symposium

Monday, November 25, 10:35-18:00
Convention Hall I-D, Estrel Congress Center, Berlin

If you cannot attend the GigaNet Annual Symposium, watch the event LIVE here or participate remotely (we are in Hall I-D and you will need to register).

The symposium is supported by our local host organization, the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

Symposium Program

10:35‐10:40 OPENING REMARKS

Hans Klein, Georgia Tech, USA

10:40‐12:10 LOCAL & COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES

Chair: Dmitry Epstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

12:10‐13:00 LUNCH

13:00‐14:30 INSTITUTIONS & PROCESSES

Chair: Carolina Aguerre, Universidad de San Andres, Argentina

14:30‐14:45 BREAK

14:45‐16:15 LAWS & NORMS

Chair: Julia Pohle, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Germany

16:15‐16:30 BREAK

16:30‐18:00 THEORY

Chair: Marianne Franklin, Goldsmith’s University of London

18:00-19:00 GIGANET BUSINESS MEETING

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2019 GigaNet Symposium Program Committee

Program Chair: Hans Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Local Conference Chair: Julia Pohle, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany

Angela Daly, Strathclyde University Law School, Scotland
Anna Loup, University of Southern California, USA
Caleb Ogundele, African Academic Network on Internet Policy, Nigeria
Christian Djeffal, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Daniel Oppermann, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Divina Frau-Meigs, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France
Dmitry Epstein, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Edison Tabra, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Peru
Efrat Daskal, Northwestern University, USA
Elinor Carmi, Liverpool University, UK
Gianluigi Negro, Peking University, China
Jamal Shahin, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jat Singh, University of Cambridge, UK
Jim Quirk, American University, USA
John Gathegi, University of South Florida, USA
Jun Liu, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Maria Bada, University of Cambridge, UK
Matthias Kettemann, Leibniz Institute for Media Research and Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI), Germany
Nanette Levinson , American University, USA
Rolf Weber, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Trisha Meyer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Yik Chan Chin, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Yong Liu, Hebei Academy of Social Sciences, China

Dmitry Epstein Annual Symposium, News

Call for Papers: 2019 Annual GigaNet Symposium (Berlin, Germany)

Call for Papers

GigaNet 2019 Symposium

October 15: full papers due
November 25:  GigaNet 2019 Symposium, Berlin

GigaNet – the Global Internet Governance Academic Network – is now accepting extended abstracts for papers to be presented at its annual symposium. GigaNet 2019 will be held alongside the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Berlin.  We expect our symposium to be held on “Day 0” of the IGF, which is Monday, November 25.

GigaNet is an international association of academic researchers founded in 2006 to support multidisciplinary research on Internet governance. Its membership includes researchers from all over the world who are contributing to local, national, regional, and international debates on Internet governance. More information on GigaNet’s organizational structures and activities can be found on its website at http://www.giga-net.org.

Papers on any Internet governance-related topic are solicited. Welcome topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Norm development by states and/or non-state actors
  • Cross-regional dynamics (East-West, South-South, East-South, South-West, etc.)
  • Governance of/by content, e.g. narratives, disclosures, censorship
  • Sovereignty (internal, external) and commons-based governance
  • Cybersecurity and cyber conflict among states
  • Governance within new top-level domains
  • Technical standards as norms
  • Theories of and methods applicable to Internet governance research
  • Multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approaches

GigaNet is oriented around the presentation of research papers.  Extended abstract should consist of 800-1500 words and must describe:

  1. The research question(s),
  2. The data used,
  3. The methodology and
  4. The main findings of the paper.

Theoretical papers need not specify the data used but must have a clear research question and statement of the specific theories used and literature in which the analysis is situated.

Reviews of individual papers will be double blind. Therefore, do not include names or any other personally identifiable information on the uploaded file.  (Be aware, however, that applicants will submit through the Easychair platform, which will record their names and contact data, and the program committee chair will be able to see that information.)

GigaNet encourages emerging scholars to submit their work to the symposium. Proposals should be submitted in English.

For submission, the extended abstract must be uploaded to the Easychair website (URL above) by 22 June 2019.

Important dates:

  • June 22: Extended abstracts submission
  • August 18: notification to authors of acceptances/rejections
  • August 23: accepted authors confirm attendance
  • October 15: full papers due
  • November 25:  GigaNet 2019 Symposium, Berlin (subject to change when UN allocates facilities at IGF)

Participation in the GigaNet symposium is free of charge.

Isadora Hellegren News, Other events

Call for Papers: ICA Pre-Conference (Washington, DC, USA)

Internet Governance and Communication beyond Boundaries

ICA Pre-Conference

24 May 2019

Washington, DC, USA

Hosted and sponsored by the Internet Governance Lab at the American University.

Co-sponsored by ICA Communication and Technology Division, ICA Communication Law and Policy Division, and the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet).

Extended abstract due: 11 February 2019
Full papers due: 25 April 2019

SUBMIT HERE

Internet Governance and Communication beyond Boundaries

Contemporary questions about the information society are inseparable from questions of governance of the underlying infrastructures, the logic of information flows, and its uses at the edges. The scope of questions under the general umbrella of internet governance is thus extremely broad, but at the same time vaguely defined. In the spirit of this year’s ICA conference theme, this event will discuss the issue of boundaries in internet governance both as a substantive topic of research and as a reflexive exercise for internet governance as a research domain.

Substantively, within internet governance, boundaries have been traditionally an important area of research starting with question of sovereignty and jurisdiction in cyberspace, reaching to the exploration of boundaries of the technical, legal, social, and political decision-making with constitutive effects on the internet. As a field of study, internet governance has been debating its disciplinary boundaries as well as the scope of research questions that can come under this broad label.

To facilitate this debate, we are inviting proposals that cover a broad scope of topics relating to internet governance and communication, including, but not limited to, topics such as:

  • Power structures in internet governance, their sustainability and change;
  • Nationalization of internet governance and possible threats of internet fragmentation;
  • Privatization of internet governance and its impact on individual freedoms and human rights;
  • Technical, legal and policy initiatives for cybersecurity and their impact on global internet governance;
  • Emerging forms of governance such as trade agreements or user-driven change;
  • Technological disruption and emerging governance questions in areas such as artificial intelligence and human augmentics;
  • The respective powers of the users, technology designers and regulators in distributed systems;
  • Public awareness of internet governance and communication of internet policy;
  • Visions and metaphors of information technology in internet policy discourse;

We are particularly interested in proposals that offer a reflection on Internet Governance as a field of research. Those may address, but again, are not limited to, the following topics:

  • How does one research Internet Governance? 
  • Epistemological and practical challenges of Internet Governance research;
  • The (multi)disciplinary, topical, and epistemological boundaries of Internet Governance research;
  • Exploration of the boundary between research and activism in Internet Governance.

The pre-conference is organized by the Internet Governance Lab at the American University and the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet). It is co-sponsored by the ICA Communication Law and Policy and Communication and Technology divisions, but it touches upon the fields of many more ICA divisions and interest groups. We aim to bring together ICA participants interested in questions of governance, GigaNet members from other disciplines, and the Washington, DC community of practitioners and policymakers. Our goal is to have a mutual learning process and exchange of ideas and challenges for the further development of Internet Governance research. For further inquiries, please contact Kenneth Merrill (kmerrill@american.edu) or Dmitry Epstein (dima.e@mail.huji.ac.il).

Submission details

At this time we invite authors to submit extended abstracts (800-1000 words) that describe the main thesis, research goals, and to the extent possible, the methodological background and findings of their paper. All extended abstracts must be uploaded through EasyChair by 11 February 2019, with all identifying information removed. All contributions will be peer-reviewed.

UPLOAD YOUR EXTENDED ABSTRACT HERE

Authors of the accepted abstracts will be asked to submit a full original manuscript of approximately 4000 to 8000 words, which have not been published elsewhere, by 25 April 2019. Based on the volume and the quality of submissions we intend to explore a potential thematic publication of pre-conference materials.

Isadora Hellegren Annual Symposium, News

Call for Papers: 13th Annual GigaNet Symposium (Paris, France)

GigaNet – the Global Internet Governance Academic Network – is now accepting extended abstracts for papers to be presented at its annual symposium on November 15, 2018, in Paris, France. Extended abstract submission deadline: August 15, 2018. Full papers due: October 19 2018.

The theme of this year’s Symposium is:

Not the ‘New Oil’ – Data Governance and the Internet

By creating global compatibility and interoperability for nearly all forms of digital data, the Internet has created a new economy centered on the value and use of data. Metaphors of “data as the new oil,” however, can encourage policies of hoarding, bordering and nationalizing information. We encourage submissions of papers that take a fresher look at the global political economy and governance of data and its relationship to Internet governance. We encourage papers that address the international economics and policy of “big data,” the global impact of the European GDPR; industrial data sharing and the Internet of things; the economic and political impact of data uses by AI tools; the regulation of data sharing across borders, including data localization laws; platforms, data, manipulation and verification.

While papers related to the symposium theme are encouraged, GigaNet is a home for all scholars of Internet governance; its annual symposium is intended to build and showcase the entire field. Authors from any Internet governance-related topic and methodological or theoretical approach are invited to submit their work. Topics that are welcome include, but are not limited to:

* The role of sovereignty in cyberspace

* Trade agreements and Internet governance

* Cybersecurity and cyber conflict among great powers

* Multistakeholder governance and the distribution of power in IG institutions

* The transparency and inclusiveness of post-transition ICANN

* Policy issues related to domain names and IP addresses

* The role of Internet intermediaries in Internet governance

Time and Location

The Symposium will take place on 15 November 2018 in Paris, France. It will be hosted by the LIP6 Laboratory, Tower 26, Room 25-26/105 Sorbonne Université, Jussieu Campus, 4 Place Jussieu – 75005 Paris. Participation in the GigaNet symposium is free of charge.

Submission Requirements

GigaNet is oriented around the presentation of research papers. We ask you to submit extended abstracts for review by the program committee. Extended abstract should consist of 800-1500 words. Each abstract must describe

1) The research question(s),

2) The data used,

3) The methodology and

4) The main findings of the paper.

Theoretical papers need not specify the data used but must have a clear research question and statement of the specific theories used and literature in which the analysis is situated.

Proposals should be submitted in English. Reviews of individual papers will be double blind. Therefore, do not include names or any other personally identifiable information on the uploaded file; be aware however that applicants will submit through the Easychair platform which will record their names and contact data and the PC chair will be able to see them.

Extended abstract submission deadline: August 15, 2018

Full papers due: October 19 2018

All documents must be uploaded to: EasyChair

We expect to complete reviews and notifying authors of acceptances on September 3. Accepted papers will be required to submit their final paper submission by October 19 to be included in the program.

 

The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet)

GigaNet is an international association of academic researchers founded in 2006 to support multidisciplinary research on Internet governance. Its membership includes researchers from all over the world who are contributing to local, regional and international debates on Internet Governance. GigaNet encourages emerging scholars to submit their work to the conference. More information on GigaNet’s organizational structures and activities can be found on our website.