[ecrea] IJoC Publishes Special Section on Net Neutrality

The International Journal of Communication Publishes a Special Section
"Working for Internet Freedoms: Network Neutrality in the U.S. and the
Labors of Policy Advocacy"

Advocates of network neutrality in the U.S. won a major victory February
2015 when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to reclassify
broadband Internet access services as telecommunications
services—“policy speak” for codifying net neutrality rules into
administrative practice. Although this victory has already withstood at
least one judicial challenge, opponents are determined to take the dispute
to the Supreme Court. Trying to understand more about the how of this
landmark regulatory victory is important given that public interest policy
battles are never over. Momentous wins like the 2015 FCC ruling are
significant celebratory events in the otherwise mundane, yet vital, labors
of policy advocacy—the ongoing struggles, efforts, and hard work essential
for policy change.
Working for Internet Freedoms: Network Neutrality in the U.S. and the Labors
of Policy Advocacy, guest-edited by Becky Lentz, McGill University, Canada,
and Allison Perlman, University of California Irvine, is the latest Special
Section of IJoC. Articles in this Special Section illuminate myriad
strategies and tactics involved in policy advocacy as well as dynamics at
play within and across advocacy organizations.
This Special Section contains 14 contributions by international scholars
which includes: an editorial introduction that argues for enlarging the
field of vision of media and communication studies to consider advocacy
labor within the broader turn to studies of media labor; three interviews
with key actors in the U.S. network neutrality struggle; a feature that
takes a close look at a policy advocacy organization; seven original
research papers, and two book review essays.

We invite you to read these articles that published in the International
Journal of Communication on  November 8, 2016 at ijoc.org.
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EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION

Working for Internet Freedoms: Network Neutrality in the U.S. and the Labors
of Policy Advocacy—Introduction
Becky Lentz, Allison Perlman

FORUM

The Historical Moment of Net Neutrality: An Interview With Former U.S.
Federal Communications Commissioner Michael J. Copps Bill Kirkpatrick

Net Neutrality and the Public Interest: An Interview With Gene Kimmelman,
President and CEO of Public Knowledge
Jennifer Holt

Funding Net Neutrality Advocacy: An Interview with the Founder and Director
of the Media Democracy Fund Becky Lentz

FEATURE

Fight for the Future and Net Neutrality: A Case Study in the Origins,
Evolution, and Activities of a Digital-Age Media Advocacy Organization
Ian Dunham

ARTICLES

The Role of the Networked Public Sphere in the U.S. Net Neutrality Policy
Debate
Robert Faris, Hal Roberts, Bruce Etling, Dalia Othman, Yochai Benkler

Closing the Technocratic Divide? Activist Intermediaries, Digital Form
Letters, and Public Involvement in FCC Policy Making
Jonathan A. Obar
CAP! Comcast: The Framing and Distribution Strategies of Policy Advocates
Within Networked Communications
Gino Canella

Narrowing the Gap: Gender and Mobilization in Net Neutrality Advocacy
Deen Freelon, Amy B. Becker, Bob Lannon, Andrew Pendleton
> From Net Neutrality to Net Equality
John McMurria
Wonkish Populism in Media Advocacy and Net Neutrality Policy Making
Danny Kimball

The Debate Nobody Knows: Network Neutrality’s Neoliberal Roots and a
Conundrum for Media Reform
Russell Newman

BOOK REVIEWS

> From Critical Perspectives to Media Reform: A Review of Three Books
James Losey The Labor of Teaching and Learning Policy Advocacy as Media 
Activism: A
Review of Works by Ollis and Choudry
Gretchen King
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Larry Gross                                                   Editor
 Arlene Luck
Managing Editor
                                                         Becky Lentz, 
Allison Perlman
Guest Editors
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International Journal of Communication (IJoC)
USC Annenberg Press
University of Southern California
http://ijoc.org/

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