[ecrea] Theory of Broadband: Regulation, Networks and Applications

Call for Paper Proposals





“Theory of Broadband: Regulation, Networks and Applications”


A by-invitation Experts’ Workshop to be held at


The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia University


New York, NY, May 30-June 1, 2013



As broadband becomes the dominant technology over which all media and 
telecommunications services are delivered, the traditional differences 
between content and conduit, mass media and interpersonal 
communications, and mobile and fixed uses made of technology are 
blurred.  This has been observed and discussed for a while but 
theoretical dimensions on how technology changes regulatory, societal 
and economic structures have lagged. As we are moving to an entirely new 
generation of media, new academic approaches are needed to guide 
networks, users, content providers, and policy makers, This calls for 
analysis and new conceptual and methodological models.



The Institute for Information Policy at Penn State University (IIP), and 
the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) are pleased to 
announce this call for paper proposals in which “Theory of Broadband: 
Regulation, Networks and Applications”serves as the main theme. Authors 
of selected papers will be invited to present them during a two day 
by-invitation workshop designed to bring together up to a dozen experts 
and to be held at Columbia University in New York, NY. This Workshop is 
one of a series of events on “Making Policy Research Accessible,” 
organized by the IIP, with the support of the Ford Foundation and the 
Media Democracy Fund. Presenters at the workshop will be invited to 
submit their completed papers for review by the Journal of Information 
Policy (www.jip-online.org).



We seek papers that focus on the next generation of issues. All 
disciplines are welcome. Invited topics include, but are not limited to:





·       Theories of broadband networking and/or regulation and 
regulatory principles


·       Models of transition to the new broadband marketplace


·       The role of the FCC and other regulatory agencies in consumer 
protection, competition policy and merger oversight in the broadband economy


·       Valuation and regulation of spectrum in the broadband environment


·       Impacts of technological trends on the fundamental economics of 
information


·       Investor approaches and risk in the broadband environment


·       Access as a social and economic goal in a converged 
technological environment


·       Concepts of privacies in the broadband environment


·       Comparisons of alternative national models of broadband 
regulatory oversight and their track records


·       Next generation media and next generation content genres


·       Understanding audiences in the broadband environment



Abstracts of up to 500 words and a short bio of the author(s) should be 
submitted to (pennstateiip /at/ psu.edu) by February 22, 2013. Please write 
IIPCITITOB: YOUR NAME in the subject line. Accepted presenters will be 
notified by March 17, 2013.



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