Dear AoIRists, I'm very please to share this update from Internet Policy Review, the journal published by our friends at the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Institut for Internet and Society in Berlin, which has now published its special issue of papers from AoIR 2018 in Montreal. Please direct all follow-up emails to Frederic Dubois at IPR (frederic.dubois@hiig.de). From: Frederic Dubois <frederic.dubois@hiig.de> Subject: New Special Issue of Internet Policy Review - in cooperation with AoIR We are delighted to circulate the newest special issue of Internet Policy Review, edited by Jose van Dijck and Bernhard Rieder. This special issue brings together the best policy-oriented papers presented at the 2018 Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference in Montreal. The special issue is part of a partnership between AoIR and the e-journal Internet Policy Review. Enjoy the read! Best wishes, Frederic Frederic Dubois, Managing editor Internet Policy Review --- Volume 8, Issue 2 Transnational Materialities Jose van Dijck, Utrecht University, Netherlands Bernhard Rieder, New Media and Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Abstract This special issue of Internet Policy Review is the second to bring together the best policy-oriented papers presented at the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). The conference in Montreal, in October 2018, was organised around the theme of "Transnational materialities". As explained in the editorial to this issue, the contributions map the larger debate on internet governance research in terms of perspectives rather than disciplines. The eleven papers in this issue span a wide range of topics, including normative perspectives on how platforms shape democracy, conceptual perspectives on how to think platform power, and social and legal views on data-driven governance. Papers in this Special Issue The recursivity of internet governance research Jose van Dijck & Bernhard Rieder Making data colonialism liveable: how might data's social order be regulated? Nick Couldry & Ulises Mejias Mediated democracy - Linking digital technology to political agency Jeanette Hofmann Technology, autonomy, and manipulation Daniel Susser, Beate Roessler & Helen Nissenbaum Reframing platform power Jose van Dijck, David Nieborg & Thomas Poell The platform governance triangle: conceptualising the informal regulation of online content Robert Gorwa Citizen or consumer? Contrasting Australia and Europe's data protection policies James Meese, Punit Jagasia & James Arvanitakis How US-made rules shape internet governance in China Natasha Tusikov Zombie contracts, dark patterns of design, and 'documentisation' Kristin B. Cornelius The 'golden view': data-driven governance in the scoring society Lina Dencik, Joanna Redden, Arne Hintz & Harry Warne The algorithmic dance: YouTube's Adpocalypse and the gatekeeping of cultural content on digital platforms Sangeet Kumar A guideline for understanding and measuring algorithmic governance in everyday life Michael Latzer & Noemi Festic Access the open access special issue here: https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/transnational-materialities Alexander von Humboldt Institut fuer Internet und Gesellschaft gGmbH Franzoesische Straße 9 - 10117 Berlin T +49 30 200 760 82 - F +49 30 206 089 60 - www.hiig.de -- Prof. Axel Bruns a.bruns@qut.edu.au - @snurb_dot_info ARC Future Fellow, 2014-18 http://www.amazon.com/author/axel.bruns/ Professor, Media & Communication http://mappingonlinepublics.net/ QUT Digital Media Research Centre http://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/ Creative Industries Faculty, Z6-503, KG http://snurb.info/ Queensland University of Technology +61 7 3138 5548 GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia CRICOS No.: 00213J