<div dir="ltr"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Special issue on ‘Australian
internet policy’</span></b>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Call
for papers of the </span></strong><em><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Internet Policy Review</span></b></em><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">supported
by the <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Swinburne Institute
for Social Research</span></em> and <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">.au
Domain Administration (auDA)</span></em></span><em></em></p>
<h2><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">TOPIC & RELEVANCE</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Australia
is a country in which there have been various interesting developments in
internet policy over the last decade. The ambitious government-led National
Broadband Network gained international attention in internet policy circles,
although its actual trajectory has proved different from initial plans. While
in many ways internet access and use in Australia’s large cities is similar to
that experienced by European users, it is also a vast country with many rural
and remote populations, for whom the internet is more difficult to access and
use. Australia has also not been immune from international trends regarding
internet policy, such as an increased emphasis of intellectual property
enforcement in the online space, the clash between individual privacy and
counter-terrorism measures and the disruption brought to various economic
sectors by apps such as Uber. Furthermore, Australia itself is one nation
participating in international trade negotiations which are likely to have an
effect on internet policy globally, including the recently-signed Trans Pacific
Partnership, and the Trade in Services Agreement which is still being
discussed.</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The aim of
the special issue in the <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Internet
Policy Review</span></em> is to explore these recent developments in Australian
internet policy and how they relate to internet policy developments
internationally. Australia is in many ways a country similar to European
states, but also with many differences: both the similarities and differences
can be seen playing out in the internet policy field.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Accordingly,
we welcome proposals that address policy developments and debates so long as
they relate to the governance of the Australian internet in some way, or
Australian internet policy in regional or international fora. Comparative
analyses, especially with European societies and jurisdictions, are
particularly welcome (but such comparison is not necessary for inclusion in the
special edition). Papers can have both a theoretical or empirical focus, and if
empirical can be qualitative, quantitative or employing mixed methods. This
call for papers is open to researchers from the fields of policy studies,
sociology, law, philosophy, data, information and technology studies, economics
and management and, related fields.</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">FOCUS OF THE PAPERS</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">We are
particularly interested to receive proposals on the following themes in
Australian internet policy:</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Intellectual property and the internet:</span></strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> definition,
enforcement, consequences</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The internet economy:</span></strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> emerging markets;
Uberisation and disruption</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The National Broadband Network; net
neutrality</span></strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Data retention, surveillance and privacy</span></strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Internet governance; domain name policy</span></strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The interaction of trade and internet
policy:</span></strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
TPP; TiSA</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Australia’s internet policy
regionally/internationally:</span></strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> intersections with development, migration
and security policy</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Digital inclusion:</span></strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> providing internet
access to all Australians</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">BEST PAPER AWARD</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">A best
paper award will be issued to the paper accepted for publication that the
editorial team judges as being of the highest quality and provoking the most
interesting arguments.</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">SPECIAL EDITION EDITORS</span></h2>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Dr Angela Daly, Queensland University of
Technology/Swinburne Institute for Social Research (<a href="mailto:acdaly@swin.edu.au">acdaly@swin.edu.au</a>)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Professor Julian Thomas, Swinburne Institute for Social
Research (<a href="mailto:jthomas@swin.edu.au">jthomas@swin.edu.au</a>)</span></li></ul>
<h2><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">IMPORTANT DATES</span></h2>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">14
March 2016:</span></strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
Deadline for expression of interest and abstract submissions (500 word
abstracts).</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">4
April 2016:</span></strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
Authors informed of decision on abstracts</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">2
June 2016:</span></strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
Deadline for full text submissions (max. 30,000 characters spaces included).
All details on text submissions can be found under: <a href="http://policyreview.info/authors">http://policyreview.info/authors</a></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">October
2016:</span></strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
Publication of the special issue</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Submission of abstracts via online form: <a href="http://policyreview.info/node/392">http://policyreview.info/node/392</a></i></p>
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