[csaa-forum] Call for Papers: Law and Policy Implications of Convergent Media - Special Issue of International Journal of Technology Policy and Law

[Terry Flew]

Call for Papers:  ‘Law and Policy Implications of Convergent Media’
Special Issue of International Journal of Technology Policy and Law
http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijtpl
Guest editor: Terry Flew, Professor of Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
Journal editor: Niloufer Selvadurai

This special issue of the International Journal of Technology Policy and Law will consider recent discussions internationally about how to reconfigure communication regulation to account for the impact of media convergence. Three drivers of such changes include: (1) the uncoupling of media content from specific media platforms, whereas much media regulation is platform-based; (2) the increasingly complex question of who is a media content provider, given the rise of content intermediaries such as Google, as well as the rapid growth of user-created or ‘amateur’ media content; and (3) how to achieve regulatory parity between media companies based within particular nation-states and global media companies.

Papers will consider transformations in the media environment associated with convergent media policies and the rise of social media. They will consider the extent to which common regulatory challenges, such as the future of copyright law and the rise of global media platforms, are generating the diffusion of policy innovations in the communications sphere, particularly around responses that focus uponregulatory design and behavioral change rather than black-letter law, and media content rules applied by government regulatory agencies, or ad hoc interventions by content intermediaries themselves. Papers will consider these issues from the perspective of both developed and developing nations.

Submissions should be in the form of an MS Word file attached to an email to Professor Terry Flew (t.flew at qut.edu.au<mailto:t.flew at qut.edu.au>).

Publication Timeline:
30 November

Paper proposals to be submitted to editor

31 January

Papers to be submitted for refereeing

01 March

Referee reports to be returned to authors

01 April

Revised papers to be submitted to editor

15 April

Final copy forwarded to journal editor


International Journal of Technology Policy and Law is a double-blind refereed, highly professional and authoritative source of information in the fields of technology policy and law. It encourages articles representing synergy between theory and practices to help policy makers and executives govern and manage technologies and their relations with society, policies and law. Emphases will be on the related social, political and economic issues, as well as emerging issues of interest to legislators, professionals and academics.

A fewessentials for publishing in this journal:


 *   Submitted articles must not have been previously published or be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
 *   Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written (taken to mean more than 50%) and the author has cleared any necessary permissionswith the copyright owner if it has been previously copyrighted.
 *   All our articles are refereed through a double-blind process.
 *   All authors must declare they have read and agreed to the content of the submitted article. A full statement of our Ethical Guidelines for Authors is available at http://www.inderscience.com/www/authorethics.pdf.
 *    Details of file formats can be found in Author Guidelines at <http://www.inderscience.com/info/inauthors/index.php> http://www.inderscience.com/info/inauthors/index.php

Professor Terry Flew
Professor of Media and Communication
Creative Industries Faculty
Queensland University of Technology

Building z6 – Room 503
Creative Industries Precinct
Musk Avenue
Kelvin Grove QLD  AUSTRALIA 4059

Ph:  (61) 7 3138 8188
Fax: (61) 7 3138 8105
Mobile:  0405 070 980
Email: t.flew at qut.edu.au

Author of The Creative Industries, Culture and Policy (Sage, 2012)
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book233058?siteId=sage-uk&prodTypes=Books&q=Flew&pageTitle=productsSearch

Lead Commissioner, Australian Law Reform Commission, May 2011-February 2012. Final report, Classification – Content Regulation and Convergent Media
http://www.alrc.gov.au/publications/classification-content-regulation-and-convergent-media-alrc-report-118.
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