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Call for Papers

GigaNet 2020 Symposium 

 2 November (Katowice, Poland)

GigaNet – the Global Internet Governance Academic Network – is now accepting extended abstracts for papers to be presented at its annual symposium. As of now, GigaNet 2020 is planned to be held alongside the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Katowice, Poland. We expect our symposium to take place on “Day 0” of the IGF, which is Monday, 2 November. 

Papers on any Internet/data governance-related topic are welcome. Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. There will be the possibility of a focused subset of accepted papers to be fast-tracked for publication in a relevant journal. Welcome topics include, but are not limited to:

The evolution of Internet governance / institutions / norms

•  Governance of standards, content, practices, including governance of/by online platforms

•  Public/private governance dynamics in Internet policy/technical areas

•  Cybersecurity policy and governance

•  Digital security and privacy negotiation

•  Cryptocurrencies and relations with the Internet infrastructure

•  Cross-regional cooperation and initiatives 

•  Mobilization and social structure(s) in the digital age

•  Norm development by states and/or non-state actors

Future-oriented Internet research agenda

•  Emerging topics in Internet governance (e.g. public health, emergency preparedness)

•  Data governance

•  Interdisciplinary perspectives on the governance of new technologies (Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, virtual currencies)

Internet Governance as a field of study

•  Narratives, myths and frictions in the construction of the Internet governance field

• Theoretical innovations

•  Institutional morphologies and (inter)disciplinary typologies

• Theories and methods applicable to Internet governance research

GigaNet is oriented around the presentation of research papers. The proposed extended abstract should be 800-1500 words long and must describe:

1.  Research question(s),

2.   Data used, 

3.   Methodology, and 

4.   Main (expected) 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. Please 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. This records their names and contact information: the program committee chair will be able to see that information.)

*We are monitoring closely the evolving COVID-19 situation and hope that the physical meeting in Katowice can go ahead as planned. Should that change due to a prolongation of the pandemic restrictions, we will make arrangements to move the symposium online*

GigaNet encourages emerging scholars to submit their work to the symposium. Proposals should be submitted in English. Participation in the GigaNet symposium is free of charge.

For submission, the extended abstract must be uploaded to the Easychair website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=giganet2020) by 22 May 2020.

Important dates:

•       NEW Extended abstracts submission: 22 May

•       Notification to authors of acceptances/rejections: 15 June

•       Accepted authors confirm attendance: 10 July

•       Full papers due: 15 September

•       GigaNet Symposium: 2 November

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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 https://giga-net.org.

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

• Unpacking Cyber-Capacity Building in Shaping Cyberspace Governance: The SADC case, Enrico Calandro and Nils Berglund, Research ICT Africa, South Africa
• The governance of global digital public goods: Not just a crisis for Africa, Alison Gillwald and Anri Van der Spuy, University of Cape Town and Research ICT Africa, South Africa
• Policy by judicialization: the institutional framework for intermediary liability in Brazil, Clara Iglesias Keller, Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans‐Bredow‐Institute, Germany. Presentation.
• Back up: can users sue platforms to reinstate deleted content? A comparative study of US and German jurisprudence, Matthias C. Kettemann and Anna Sophia Tiedeke, Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans‐Bredow‐Institut, Hamburg, Germany. Presentation.

12:10‐13:00 LUNCH

13:00‐14:30 INSTITUTIONS & PROCESSES

Chair: Carolina Aguerre, Universidad de San Andres, Argentina

• Towards a European constitution for the internet? Comparative
  institutionalization and mobilization in European and Transnational digital
  constitutionalism, Dennis Redeker, Jacobs University Bremen/Universität Bremen,
  Germany
• Power spotted through its outcomes: understanding the relative contributions of different stakeholders in the shaping of a governance scheme for illegal hate speech online, Barthélémy Michalon, Sciences Po, France
• Leaders and participation in transnational internet governance, Thomas Winzen and David Weyrauch, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Much ado about hacking? How news media in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States report cyber threats, Christine Buse and Florian Meißner, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

14:30‐14:45 BREAK

14:45‐16:15 LAWS & NORMS

Chair: Julia Pohle, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Germany

• IoTs and the need for digital norms – A global or regional issue? Maria Bada, University of Cambridge, UK
• Protection of personal data through implementation of the right to informational self‐determination: identifying opportunities and pitfalls, Tatiana Shulga‐Morskaya, University of Bordeaux, France
• From localization towards stewardship of data, Jyoti Panday, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India
• Counter‐disinformation around the World: comparing state actions, Giovanni De Gregorio and Roxana Radu, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, and Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, UK

16:15‐16:30 BREAK

16:30‐18:00 THEORY

Chair: Marianne Franklin, Goldsmith’s University of London

• Legitimacy in multistakeholder global governance—patterns at ICANN, Hortense Jongen and Jan Aart Scholte, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• From discourse to policy change in cybersecurity: US‐Russian rivalry for cyber rules, cyberpower and practices of norm‐making, Ilona Stadnik Saint‐Petersburg State University, Russia
• Global platform governance and the internet impossibility theorem, Blayne Haggart, Brock University, Canada
• Telecommunications ownership and control (TOSCO). A new dataset on internet infrastructure in Africa, 2000‐2016, Lisa Garbe, Tina Freyburg and Veronique Wavre University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Presentation.

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