Hi All, I'm co-guest-editing an issue of IEEE's Internet Computing on Internet Censorship and Control with Steven Murdoch. Internet Computing is mostly read by geeks, including a combination of industry and academic folks. But the hope is that we'll get submissions that combine social and technical thinking, to expose that audience to an integrated view of the problems. Please let me know if you have any questions about something you're thinking of submitting. Below is the CFP. Thanks! -hal Internet Censorship and Control (May/June 2013) Final submissions due 1 September 2012 Please email the guest editors a brief description of the article you plan to submit by 15 August 2012 Guest Editors: Hal Roberts and Steven Murdoch (ic3-2013@computer.org) The Internet is a battleground where fights for technical, social, and political control are waged, including between governments and their citizens, separate governments, and competing commercial interests. These fights take many forms, such as Internet filtering versus circumvention, surveillance versus anonymization, adversarial attacks versus protection mechanisms, and on- and offline persecution and defense of online activists. These battles impact and are impacted by the Internet’s technical structure. As the Internet continues to embed itself into our world, its structural changes will have an increasing effect on our social and political structures and vice versa. This special issue seeks articles on the technical, social, and political mechanisms and impacts of Internet censor- ship and control. We’re soliciting both technical and social science articles, and especially encourage those that combine the two. Appropriate topics include * explorations of how the Internet’s technical, social, and political structures impact its censorship and control; * evaluations of how existing technologies and policies affect Internet censorship and control; * proposals for new technologies and policies; * discussions on how proposed technical, legal, or governance changes to the Internet affect censorship and control; * analysis of techniques, methodologies, and results of monitoring Internet censorship and control; and * examinations of trade-offs between control and freedom, and how these sides can be balanced. More information and submission information here: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/iccfp3 -- Hal Roberts Fellow Berkman Center for Internet & Society Harvard University