Call for Papers: Key Issues in Telecommunications Reform

Request for Proposals: Key Issues in Telecommunications Reform (EXPIRED)

I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society will devote Volume 3, Issue 1 to "Key Issues in Telecommunications Reform." Among possible topics on which we would welcome contributions are:

• The future of broadband policy generally;
• Net neutrality;
• Media consolidation;
• Interconnection;
• Municipal broadband deployment;
• National and state video franchising;
• Consumer protections for digital television purchasers;
• Spectrum management;
• Indecency legislation;
• Universal service reform; and
• The future of broadcast flag legislation.

Contributions from all disciplines are welcome, although our goal is to have the maximum relevance to regulators, legislators, and other public policy makers in the field of telecommunications. It will be important to place expert insights into a clear enough context to render key ideas accessible to an informed, but non-specialist public policy audience. Proposals should offer original work that has not and will not be previously published in another venue, although it may be based on previously published research findings. The work should not simply offer the author's opinion, but should shed significant light on the topic presented through the rigorous presentation and analysis of evidence. We envision that completed articles should be roughly 10,000 words each, exclusive of references (but including textual footnotes). (Proposals for shorter, less formal essays, of no more than 5,000 words, that represent advocacy or more preliminary analysis, are also welcome.)

Proposals will be accepted until June 15, 2006, although we would appreciate receiving earlier proposals. They should not be longer than 1-3 pages. Please forward proposals to Sol Bermann, Managing Editor of I/S, at bermann.1@osu.edu.

Some information about our publication process may be helpful. First, initial manuscripts will be submitted to at least one peer reviewer, whose comments we will expect authors to take into account in refining their work. Actual text editing, however, will be handled by law students. Second, our authors retain the copyrights to their work. You would be giving us a free, perpetual, nonexclusive license to publish your work, but we would not control your right to disseminate it in other forums in the future. For more information about I/S, see the general information page at http://is-journal.org.

I/S has been published jointly since Winter, 2005 by the Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies of the Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law and the Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society (InSITeS) at Carnegie Mellon University's H. John Heinz III School for Public Policy and Management. The journal has over 2300 subscribers.

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