Dear Colleagues,
GigaNet (The Global Internet Governance Academic Network - http://=20
giga-net.org) is pleased to announce its Third International Workshop =20=
on "Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary Research Field =20
in Construction", to be held in Montreal (Quebec), Canada, on 30 and =20
31 May 2010. This workshop is organized in cooperation with the =20
Canadian Communication Association and Media@McGill.
Please find hereafter and attached the workshop preliminary =20
announcement and call for contributions, as well as the workshop =20
poster. Feel free to widely distribute.
We look forward to receiving your submissions in response to the call =20=
below, and to welcoming you in Montreal!
Best regards,
Meryem Marzouki, on behalf of the Workshop Program and Organizing =20
Committees
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Meryem Marzouki
LIP6/PolyTIC - CNRS
104 avenue du Pr=E9sident Kennedy - 75016 Paris
http://www-polytic.lip6.fr
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Third International Workshop on
Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary Research Field in =20
Construction
Montreal (QC), Canada - 30-31 May 2010
Organized by GigaNet, in cooperation with
The Canadian Communication Association and Media@McGill
Co-sponsored by GigaNet, ACC-CCA, Media@McGill, LIP6/CNRS and UPMC
Preliminary Announcement and Call for Contributions
The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) invites you =20=
to participate in its third scholarly
workshop to be held in Montreal (QC), Canada, on 30-31 May 2010. This =20=
workshop is organized in cooperation with the
Canadian Communication Association and Media@McGill, during the =20
Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social
Sciences (CFHSS) 2010 Congress week in Montreal.
Building on the success of its first two editions, respectively in =20
Paris, France in June 2008 and in Brussels,
Belgium in May 2009, the purpose of this third GigaNet workshop is =20
twofold:
The first day will be dedicated to outreach sessions aimed at =20
increasing the interest in the Global Internet
Governance field among both various academic disciplines and the =20
civil society at large, including but not limited
to NGOs and civil society groups active in related fields. These =20
outreach sessions will include academic tutorials
on Global Internet Governance as well as information and discussion =20
led by experts in the field on current Global
Internet Governance debates and their relevance to public policy making.
Detailed information on the outreach sessions' program will be =20
distributed closer to the event itself.
The second day will feature thematic presentations selected upon =20
submissions made in response to this call for
contributions. We invite scholars to present and discuss their work-=20
in-progress in Internet Governance-related
research, with the aim to identify emerging research themes and =20
design a research agenda. Rather than featuring
academic paper presentations, the workshop aims at providing a survey =20=
of current academic activities in the field,
in order to share ideas and forge possible collaborations. =20
Submissions are expected to focus on presenting
problematics, research designs, preliminary empirical results and =20
conclusions in the aim of stimulating reflection
and discussion amongst the audience. Submissions may address, but are =20=
not limited to, the following topics:
involved actors and their interactions; Internet governance =20
institutions and regimes; legal, socio-economical,
behavioral and technical regulation means; Internet governance policy =20=
issues.
Submissions in view of thematic presentations should be sent by 20 =20
March 2010 to Meryem Marzouki
((Meryem.Marzouki /at/ lip6.fr)). They should be written in English and =20
include the name, affiliation, e-mail address and
short bio of author(s), along with no more than 500 words of research =20=
work description. The program committee will
notify applicants by 20 April 2010. To encourage knowledge =20
dissemination, relevant submissions will be published on
the workshop website. Authors of selected submissions will be invited =20=
to present their work in the workshop
thematic sessions.
Program Committee:
Laura DeNardis, Yale U., USA; Meryem Marzouki, CNRS & U. Pierre et =20
Marie Curie, France; Milton Mueller, Syracuse
U., USA & Delft Technical U., The Netherlands; Claudia Padovani, =20
Padova U., Italy & McGill U., Canada; Jeremy
Shtern, Ryerson U., Canada.
Local Organizing Committee:
Juliana Dalley, McGill U., Canada; Becky Lentz, McGill U., Canada; =20
Daniel Par=E9, U. of Ottawa, Canada; Claire
Roberge, McGill U., Canada.
There is no registration fee for this event. A registration form will =20=
be circulated with the program.
Workshop website: http://giga-net.org/page/2010-international-workshop
GigaNet: giga-net.org - ACC-CCA: www.acc-cca.ca - Media@McGill: =20
media.mcgill.ca
To receive further workshop updates, and other GigaNet news, please =20
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