[ecrea] International Journal of Communication (IJOC) Call for Papers (Special Section on Net Neutrality)

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The Work for Internet Freedoms: Network Neutrality in the U.S.

and the Labors of Policy Advocacy

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Special Section Editors

Becky Lentz, McGill University
Allison Perlman, University of California, Irvine

/Deadline for submissions:  August 31, 2015/

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When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted in February 2015
to reclassify broadband under Title II of the Telecommunications Act,
and thus to secure Network Neutrality and the principle of
nondiscrimination at its center, it delivered an important victory to
the millions of people who had insisted that strong Network Neutrality
protections were crucial for an open, democratic Internet. This victory
owed in large part to the tremendous outpouring of public support for
Network Neutrality, which itself owed to the ongoing labors of community
organizers, issue campaigners, funders, scholar activists, public
interest lawyers and many others to make visible how issues of media
policy fundamentally affect issues of social justice and political change.

For this special section, we seek articles that foreground these and
other /multiple/ labors involved in achieving policy victories like the
Network Neutrality Order. We aim to make visible the often /invisible/
work required to effect lawmaking, judicial rulings, and regulations in
the public interest.

In this issue of the /International Journal of Communication/ we take a
capacious approach to the study of media advocacy labor. We encourage
submissions that address this topic from a range of perspectives and
seek diverse methodological approaches to the study of media advocacy.
Submissions could address topics ranging from the role of philanthropic
foundations in supporting advocacy labor to John Oliver’s segment on
Network Neutrality, Code Pink’s public protests, or Free Press’ National
Conferences on Media Reform. Our goal is to provide an interdisciplinary
look at the many labors of media advocacy and to foreground the “how”
and the “why” of how media advocacy operates.

We specifically wish to publish historically and theoretically informed
articles that are attentive to examples of multiple forms of advocacy
labor. Topics could include (but are not limited to):

·Investigations into the political economy of advocacy and to the many
forms of capital (financial, informational, reputational, and/or
cultural) that it requires

·Analyses of the cultural artifacts and performances that constitute
advocacy work, such as educational videos, street theater/public
demonstrations, political satire, op-ed columns,

·Examinations of the various strategies deployed by media advocacy
groups, collectives, and networks, such as community organizing, popular
education campaigns, lobbying, regulatory filings, strategic research,
and policy advocacy pedagogy

·Examinations of the intersections between media policy advocacy and
social justice activism

·Studies of how various news sources, including non-corporate and civil
society outlets, reported on and framed advocacy work

Finally, we seek ideas for book reviews relevant to the topic of the
special section (maximum 1,500 words including references; guidelines
available).

*Note*: For this special section, we will /not/ be seeking legal
interpretations and policy analyses of the Network Neutrality issue
itself; sufficient work already exists in this area in media,
technology, and communication studies journals as well as law journals.
Nor are we seeking normative papers advancing solutions to achieve
Network Neutrality. Instead, our focus is on scholarship that
foregrounds the processes and varieties of work required to intervene
/on behalf of/ the public interest in the Network Neutrality debate.

If interested, please submit full articles by *August 31, 2015*.
Articles should be no more than 8,000 words (all-inclusive) and should
follow the APA-6^th Edition style guide. Articles should be submitted to
http://ijoc.organd specify “Net Neutrality Special Section” in your
entry.  For author guidelines, see
http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/about/submissions#authorGuidelines.

Please direct any questions about topics, formats, article length and
expected submission standards to the special section editors Becky Lentz
((becky.lentz /at/ mcgill.ca) <mailto:(becky.lentz /at/ mcgill.ca)>) or Allison
Perlman ((aperlman /at/ uci.edu) <mailto:(aperlman /at/ uci.edu)>).  Be sure to
specify “Net Neutrality Special Section” in your email subject line.







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