Kerr, Aphra and Musiani, Francesca and Pohle, Julia (2019) Communciation and Internet Policy. A critical rights based history and future. Internet Policy Review, 8 (1). ISSN 2197-6775

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This special issue of Internet Policy Review brings together a hand-picked selection of articles presented in the Communication Policy and Technology (CPT) section at the annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) in Eugene, Oregon (USA), 2018. With different theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and geographical scope, the five papers in this issue address how ideal-type rights and values are translated into highly variable rules, regulations, policies and practices in different countries and regions around the world. Drawing from their respective case studies, the papers examine a number of consequences of this gap for internet users, as citizens and consumers. Building on these papers, the editorial discusses some recent evolutions of the internet policy field, and introduces the critical and ‘engaged scholarship’ approach that IAMCR and its CPT section have displayed over the years in their analyses of communication and internet policy.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	IAMCR; User rights; State policy; Communication rights; UNESCO;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Item ID:	10751
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.14763/2019.1.1395
Depositing User:	Prof. Aphra Kerr
Date Deposited:	26 Apr 2019 09:18
Journal or Publication Title:	Internet Policy Review
Publisher:	Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Refereed:	Yes
Funders:	IAMCR
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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