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2020 Annual Symposium Call for Papers (Katowice, Poland)

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

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.

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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

Isadora Hellegren Workshops

ICA Pre-Conference: Agenda

Internet Governance and Communication beyond Boundaries

ICA Pre-Conference

24 May 2019

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
Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet)

Malsi Doyle and Michael Forman Theater (MCK 201)
American University School of Communication
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC, USA
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Agenda

9:00 – 9:15am Introductions

  • Laura DeNardis, Faculty Director, the Internet Governance Lab and Professor, American University School of Communication
  • Dmitry Epstein, Chair, GigaNet and Assistant Professor of Communication and Public Policy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

9:15 – 10:30am Panel I: The Geopolitics of Internet Governance

Moderator: Samantha Bradshaw, DPhil, the Oxford Internet Institute.

  • Aynne Kokas, “The New Cybersovereigns: Power, control, and Internet governance between China and the United States.”
  • Renee Marlin-Bennett, “Flow Power and the Governance of Information Online.”
  • Aislinn McCann and Aaron Brantly, “A Healthy Internet: Modeling Internet Governance on the World Health Organization’s Successes and Failures.”
  • Susan Aaronson, “Data is a Development Issue.”

Conversation/Q&A

10:30 – 10:45am Coffee

10:45 – 11:00am Research Slam

Moderator: Kenneth Merrill, Associate Director, the Internet Governance Lab

  • Min Tang, “The Political Economy of the Huawei Indictment: Toward a reconceptualization of nation-states in Internet governance.”
  • Dmitry Kuznetsov, “ICANN’s ‘dot brand’ Communities: A critical discourse analysis of the new gTLD programme’s construction of DNS-appropriate communities.”
  • Wenting Yu, Chris Fei Shen, and Chen Min, “Governance of Social Media Data: Different focuses between government and Internet companies.”
  • Ilona Stadnik, “Internet Fragmentation or Internet Alignment: The case of Russia and ‘sovereign’ RUnet.”
  • Junbin Su, “Opening the Black-Box of News Recommendation Algorithms: Gatekeeping and its ethical concerns.”

Conversation/Q&A

11:00 – 12:15pm Panel II: Critical Infrastructures Unbounded (Derrick)

Moderator: Derrick Cogburn, Co-Director, the Internet Governance Lab and Professor, American University School of International Service

  • Milton Mueller and Brenden Kuerbis, “Is There One Internet, or Two? The Competition Between IPv6 and IPv4 and its Implications for Internet Governance.”
  • Undrah Baasasnjav, “Stability and Security of International Domain Names.”
  • Corinne Cath, “The Technology We Choose to Create: Human Rights Advocacy and Anthropology in Internet Governance.”
  • Farzaneh Badiei and Patricia Vargas, “A Jurisprudential Approach to Governments and Other Actors Attempts to Control the Internet Root Zone.”

Conversation/Q&A

12:15 – 1:15pm Lunch & Poster Session

School of International Service, Founders Room

1:15 – 2:30pm Panel III: Human Rights

Moderator: Eric Novotny, Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer, American University School of International Service and Faculty Fellow, the Internet Governance Lab

  • Ksenia Ermoshina, Benjamin Loveluck and Francesca Musiani, “A market of black boxes: The Russian Internet industry of censorship and surveillance.”
  • Aras Coskuntuncel, “The Privatization of Internet Governance as an Information Control Strategy in Turkey.”
  • Emma Briant, “The Case of Cambridge Analytica: Governing Beyond Borders for a Global Digital Influence Industry.”
  • Andrew Rens and Bryan Bello, “Don’t Think of Intelligence! The role of technological frames in regulating AI and the implications for the social production of knowledge.”

Conversation/Q&A

2:30 – 2:45pm Coffee

2:45 – 4:00pm Panel IV: Boundaries of Internet Governance

Moderator: Dmitry Epstein, Chair, GigaNet and Assistant Professor of Communication & Public Policy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  • Anna Loup and Dustin Phillips, “When Multi-Scalar Meets Intersectional Analysis: New ways of doing Internet access, infrastructure, and governance research, a case study of California’s Central Valley”
  • Maggie Clifford, Patricia Aufderheide and Aram Sinnreich, “Access Shrugged: Declining Engagement with Open-Source and Open-Access Approaches.”
  • Efrat Daskal, “Broadening the boundaries of the field: Personal Internet Governance?”
  • Martha Fuentes-Bautista, Becky Lentz and Rafael Zanatta, “Assessing Engaged Learning on Data Protection: Towards a Social Justice Perspective on Internet Governance Pedagogy”

Conversation/Q&A

4:00 – 4:30pm Concluding Remarks

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 https://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.