Communication Law and Policy

This summer, Harvard offers some very interesting paid internship opportunities surely of interest to many young scholars. See here - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/internships_summer. 
 

Call for Papers: A Conference to Explore the Past, Present and Future of Television. University of Oregon / Turnbull Center / Portland, Oregon. March 1-3, 2012. What is television these days? How are digital technologies changing television? How are the Internet and other new media changing the television industry�s model of production, distribution and consumption? What is the future of television?

The Conference is organized by the International and Intercultural Communication Section of ECREA (IIC), supported by ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association), by ECREA Sections on Journalism Studies and Communication Law & Policy and by the Committee of the Regions.

The Digital Public Sphere. Challenges for Media Policy

Editors: Jostein Gripsrud & Hallvard Moe

Nordicom, University of Gothenburg, 2010, 167 p. - ISBN
978-91-86523-02-2, Price EUR25

Until recently, media policy was thought of as national, media-specific,
and as part of the cultural domain. All is changing in a digital public
sphere: first, by the processes of globalization in a broad sense;
second, by a blurring of borders between media, which can be summed up

OD2010, the Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation30 June – 2 July, 2010Leeds University Business School, UKThe widespread diffusion of the Internet and a growing trend towardsdemocratisation worldwide have encouraged new modes, projects and visionsof citizen participation in decision making and governance.

The Broadband Act of 2011:
Designing A Communications Act for the 21st Century
A by-invitation experts workshop
New America Foundation, Washington, DC
September 28-30, 2011

The passage of the National Broadband Plan in March 2010; the heated debate over Title
II reclassification; the ongoing deliberations regarding the NPRM on Network Neutrality;
the Comcast-NBCU merger proceedings; and the April 2010 Appeals Court decision in
Comcast v. FCC, all point to the need for a comprehensive overhaul of the Communications

The Political Economy of Information and Communication Technologies

Topic of 2010: Social Networking

Lecturers:
William Melody
Charles Steinfield
Ramjee Prasad
Knud Erik Skouby
Anders Henten
Reza Tadayoni

Dates: 22-27 August 2010
Place: Skagen, Denmark
Organizer: Center for Communication, Media and Information technologies (CMI), Aalborg
University, Denmark

Information and registration:

World Internet Policy Project (WIP2) Workshop
ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal (6 July 2010)