[ecrea] Call for proposals: Post-Snowden Internet Policy

Call For Proposals - Deadline 31 May 2016

Cogitatio Media and Communication, Volume 4, Issue 6
http://cogitatiopress.com/ojs/index.php/mediaandcommunication/pages/view/nextissues#internetpolicy

Title: Post-Snowden Internet Policy

Editors: Julia Pohle (WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany) and Leo
Van Audenhove (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, and University of
the Western Cape, South Africa)

Deadline for Abstracts: 31 May 2016
Deadline for Submissions: 31 August 2016
Publication of the Issue: December 2016

Information: In summer 2013, the world was shaken by the revelations of
Edward Snowden, a former NSA systems administrator who leaked classified
records of the surveillance programmes of the US intelligence agencies.
In several countries, these disclosures led to a chorus of outrage by
internet users and policy-makers. In addition, despite the fact that
many international corporations dissociated themselves from US
surveillance practices, the disclosed documents revealed how the nexus
between the US government and the IT industry entails the neglect of
privacy concerns on a large scale. Hence, the NSA scandal has
demonstrated that existing Internet policy frameworks are not adequate
to address illegitimate data collection and surveillance through global
digital infrastructures. It thereby accelerated a necessary debate about
the future of Internet policy in an increasingly globalised word that is
interconnected by digital infrastructures.

But as much consternation as Snowden’s revelations have caused, the
discursive response to the scandal appears disconnected from the
practical response. While users continue to entrust their data and
personal information to US-based corporations, policy-makers in Europe
and other regions have yet to put forward alternative approaches that
would reform existing domestic and international Internet policy and
ensure the respect of legal obligations and human rights.

This thematic issue seeks contributions that approach the consequences
that the Snowden disclosures have had, might have or should have on the
discursive and practical level. We particularly invite submissions that
reveal the complex mechanisms of Internet policy and its many
interrelated (and often competing) discourses, issues and actors.
Approaching the topic of post-Snowden Internet policy from a
theoretical, conceptual or case-study perspective, contributions could
address the following topics:

- Privacy by policy or by design
- Data protection in a globalised network society
- Digital literacy and the power of users/consumers
- Surveillance – between care and control
- Digital sovereignty and data localisation
- Accountability of international corporations
- Policy-making in a black box society
- Civil disobedience, (h)activists and their impact on policy debates

Instructions for Authors: Authors interested in submitting a paper for
this issue are asked to consult the journal's instructions for authors
and to send their abstracts (about 200-250 words, with a tentative
title) by email to the journal's editorial office
((mac /at/ cogitatiopress.com)) by 31 May 2016. Authors shall also check with
their institutions if funds are available to cover open access
publication costs. Further information about the journal's open access
charges and institutional memberships can be found in the "About" webpage.

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