[Commlist] CPT-IAMCR/Internet Policy Review special issue ‘Practicing rights and values in internet policy around the world' published

We would like to bring your attention to our recently released special 
issue - ‘*Practicing rights and values in internet policy around the 
world,*’ available open access in the Internet Policy Review journal: 
https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/communication-and-internet-policy-critical-rights-based-history-and-future

The special issue includes five papers on internet policy and its 
impacts on citizens and consumers in Europe, Australia, the Americas, 
and Africa. All were presented in the Communication Policy & Technology 
(CPT) section at the International Media and Communication Research 
conference, Eugene, Oregon, 2018.

The CPT chairing team also authored an editorial ‘Communication and 
internet policy: a critical rights-based history and future’ to situate 
the history and current contributions of CPT and IAMCR **in relationship 
to the field of Internet Policy research. CPT has been a platform for 
researching telecommunications policy and infrastructure since 1974 when 
the section was formed by Prof. Dallas Smythe from Simon Fraser 
University, in Canada. By 1990 “policy” was explicitly added to the 
section name under the leadership of Prof. Robin Mansell, now at the 
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in the UK. We 
argue in this editorial that IAMCR scholars have played an important 
role in developing a critical rights-based approach to communication 
policy and later internet policy. You can read it at 
https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/communication-and-internet-policy-critical-rights-based-history-and-future#editorial 


This special issue aims to specifically cross some of the international 
and disciplinary boundaries facing internet policy researchers, and 
contribute to the development of internet policies that operate in the 
public interest, but also are built upon the legacy of activism and 
research that developed in relation to older communication systems.

The /Internet Policy Review/ is an open access online journal, founded 
in 2013, which //contributes empirical research, analysis and current 
affairs coverage to contemporary debate about media, information 
technology, telecommunications and internet governance. The /Internet 
Policy Review /is a publication of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute 
for Internet and Society, based in Berlin, Germany, in partnership with 
several research units and institutes across Europe.

We would like to acknowledge the generous support of the section and 
working groups fund <https://iamcr.org/swg_fund/sept18> of IAMCR for 
this special issue. We would also like to acknowledge the work of our 
IAMCR colleagues who generously took part in the open peer review process.


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