Communication Policy & Technology Section

The CP&T Section’s focus is on communication policy, with a keen interest in the socio-economic aspects of technological change. The Section welcomes theoretical and empirical studies and research that bridges theory and practice, by offering scientific reflection as well as guidelines for political action. The CP&T Section does not adhere to any single philosophical or theoretical school but encourages research that is critical.

This Section encompasses work on issues of policy and technology involving internet governance; the implications of globalisation for the use of emerging technologies, interfaces between culture, technology and policy, the potential of people-centred design and innovation, as well as critical analyses of ICT and telecommunication policies. There is also a developing interest in the implications of embedded and ubiquitous ICT technologies for citizens’ rights, privacy and justice. 

Co-chair: Julia Pohle (WZB Berlin Social Science Center) [Contact]
Co-chair: Weiyu Zhang (National University of Singapore) [Contact]
Vice chair: Leah Komen (Daystar University, Kenya) [Contact]
Vice chair: Guy Hoskins (Carleton University, Canada) [Contact]


 

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ECREA Special Panel

20 October, 2022 - Julia Pohle, co-Chair of the Communication Policy and Technology Section, will participate in a "special panel" at the upcoming ECREA conference in Aarhus, Denmark, entitled "Essential yet Endangered: The State of CLP Research in Europe"

Concealing for Freedom

7 June, 2022 -IAMCR's Communication Policy & Technology Section organised a webinar to present the book “Concealing for Freedom: The Making of Encryption, Secure Messaging and Digital Liberties”, co-authored by Francesca Musiani and Ksenia Ermoshina.

Journal of Information Policy

The Communication Policy & Technology Section supported the publication of a special issue of the Journal of Information Policy on “Communication Rights in the Digital Age”, edited by CPT members Minna Aslama Horowitz, Hannu Nieminen and Amit Schejter, and including many articles by CPT members and colleagues.

CPT Best Paper Awards 2019

The Communication Policy and Technology Section has announced the winners of its 2019 best paper award and the CPT/Internet Policy Review award. Congratulations to Ana Pop Stefanija, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), Sora Kim, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Sabine Einwiller, University of Vienna (Austria).

CPT "Internet Policy Review" issue

The chairs of IAMCR's Communication Policy and Technology Section (CPT) 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. The issue is based in papers presented at the IAMCR 2018 conference.

Post-Snowden Internet Policy

The latest issue of Media and Communication focuses on "Post-Snowden Internet Policy". The issue was guest-edited by Julia Pohle, vice-chair of IAMCR’s Communication Policy and Technology Section, and Leo Van Audenhove, a member of the section. The issue was co-sponsored by the Communication Policy and Technology Section.

IAMCR 2014: Communication Policy and Technology Section - CfP - Deadline 10 February

Call for Papers - COMMUNICATION POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY (CP&T) section

The Communication Policy and Technology (CP&T) Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) invites submissions for the IAMCR 2014 conference to be held from July 15-19, 2014 at Hyderabad (India). The deadline for submissions of extended abstracts for papers and panel proposals is midnight GMT on 10 February 2014.

IAMCR 2013 - Communication Policy and Technology Section - Call for Papers

The Communication Policy and Technology (CP&T) Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) invites submissions for the IAMCR 2013 conference to be held from June 25-29, 2013 in Dublin City University in Dublin (Ireland). The deadline for submissions of extended abstracts and panel proposals is January 28, 2013.

IAMCR 2012 - Communication Policy and Technology Section Call for Papers

The Communication Policy and Technology (CP&T) Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) invites submissions for the IAMCR 2012 conference to be held from July 15-19, 2012 at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) in Durban (South Africa). The deadline for submissions of abstracts and panel proposals is February 14, 2012.

Istanbul 2011 - Communication Policy and Technology Call for Papers

istanbulThe Communication Policy and Technology (CP&T) Section invites submissions for its open sessions at the IAMCR 2011 conference to be held in Istanbul (Turkey) from July 13-17. The IAMCR conference theme for 2011 is ‘Cities, Creativity, Connectivity’.

In the network society the media and telecommunication landscape of one-way broadcasting and two-way personal communication is transforming into a digitized, converged and interactive ecosystem, based on internet technologies and applications. This transformation has also driven the development of horizontal networks of interactive communication that connect local and global in chosen time. Castells labels this new form of socialized communication as ‘mass self-communication’, and sees it as a potential new medium for power and counter-power.

Braga 2010 - Communication Policy & Technology Section Call for Papers

Communication Policy and Technology (CP&T) Section
International Association for Media and Communication Research
28th Annual Conference, July 18-22, 2010, Braga (Portugal)
Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change

The Communication Policy and Technology (CP&T) Section of the IAMCR invites the submission of abstracts bearing on the Conference theme as well as on the Section sub-theme: 'Citizen Participation through Technology, Access and Policy'.

Mexico 2009 - Communications Policy and Technology Section Call for Papers

International Association for Media and Communication Research
27th Annual Research Conference, July 21-24, 2009
National Autonomous University Of Mexico (Unam), Mexico-City, Mexico
Theme: Human Rights And Communication

The Communication Policy and Technology (CP&T) Section of the IAMCR invites the submission of abstracts bearing on the Conference theme as well as on the Section sub-theme ‘Human Rights, ICT Use & Technology Policy: Challenges, Options and the Way Forward’.

Stockholm 2008 - Communications Policy and Technology Section Call for Papers

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 FEBRUARY 2008!

The Communications Policy and Technology (CPT) Section invites
submissions
related to the theme of the IAMCR 2008 Congress  – Media and Global
Divides. The theme ‘Media and Global Divides’ reflects one of the
prevailing challenges of public policy-making in digital domains
globally.  It also represents one of the primary research areas of the
Communications Policy and Technology Section of the IAMCR.

Paris 2007 - Communication Policy and Technology Section Call for Papers

Communication Policy and Technology (CP&T) Section
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION RESEARCH (IAMCR)

50th Anniversary Conference, Paris, July 23-25, 2007
‘Media, Information, and Communication: Celebrating 50 years of Theories and Practice’

History is patient, the future waits

On the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the IAMCR, the CP&T Section will devote its entire programme to the future of communication policy research and emerging technology applications.

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