[ecrea] Call for Submission: Edited volume - Urban Communication Regulation: Designing Communication Abundance and Limits in the Urban Century

Call for Submission: Edited volume
Urban Communication Regulation: Designing Communication Abundance and 
Limits in the Urban Century

A volume edited by Susan Drucker and Harvey Jassem


Authors are invited to submit abstracts for chapters they propose 
writing for this volume. Chapters may be prescriptive or descriptive, 
and will discuss an issue where policy or regulation impacts the quality 
of urban communication.   Please submit a one to two page abstract by 
August 15, 2015 to Harvey Jassem ((Jassem /at/ Hartford.edu)).

We anticipate that selections for inclusion will be made in September, 
2015, with selected chapters due January, 2016.

The 21st century has been dubbed the urban century. It is an era marked 
by recentralization and a return to the inner core after decades of 
suburban sprawl. It is an era of urban sprawl. It is the first century 
in which the majority of the world's people will live in urban areas 
with over three billion residents in cities representing a demographic 
transformation on an unprecedented scale. Cities have always been social 
settings.

There is a relationship between how we communicate with each other in 
social settings, the physical and virtual nature of those settings and 
the regulatory framework governing those settings. From a communication 
perspective, communication freedoms and opportunities are significant 
attributes used as determinants of quality of life in municipalities, 
and the purpose of this volume is to bring together people and ideas 
that argue for – or against – policy and legal approaches that impact 
the urban communication environment and experience.

Some regulations directly control free expression in cities through 
licensing and control of content. Some are more indirect, targeting 
non-communication related activities which nevertheless determine the 
nature of communicative interaction. These secondary regulations might 
include such things as anti-loitering, anti-littering, gambling and 
public nuisances and the licensing of alcoholic beverages, minimum 
drinking age and driving age, parking regulations, anti-babble locations 
prohibiting the use of mobile phones, street furniture, public utility 
ownership, etc. Similarly, land use regulations, especially zoning laws, 
all influence communication patterns. Additionally, much of the 
communication infrastructure is shaped by diverse regulations.

The contributing authors will demonstrate how governments, legislatures, 
property owners and courts are incentivizing and responding to changes 
in technology, demographics, economies, and cultures. This anthology 
will examine how primary and secondary regulation can shape the 
communicative environment of cities.


Chapters will focus on the legal and policy aspects of such topics as:

* Rights of Assembly: protest, leafleting, picketing, guerilla protest, 
sit-lie, panhandling, begging ordinances
* Surveillance and privacy
* The privatization of public space and public utilities
* Broadband and Wi-fi: marketplace & regulatory threats and opportunities
* Signage, billboards, advertising on/in municipal & licensed property & 
facilities
* Zoning
* Sound Regulations
* Free Speech rights and Zones
* Newsrack/street furniture
* Graffiti
* Street performers
* Photo journalists/photography in public places
* Tenure in public schools
* Cities and strategies for enhancement of telecommunication 
infrastructure development/investment, including alternative ownership 
models
* 211, Apps, and other new telecommunication options for governing the 
urban experience.
* Private vs. Public investment
* Moving communication from regulated to unregulated arenas.
* Local ownership/control
* Policy strategies designed to enhance ITC access & affordability






Susan Drucker
Professor
Lawrence Herbert School of Communication
Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY, 11501, USA
(sphsjd /at/ hofstra.edu)

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