Dear AoIRists, Those attending IAMCR in Montreal this week may be interested in various Global Media Policy WG sessions with focus on Internet governance, media policy, and mapping - see below. Cheers, Gerard Goggin GLOBAL MEDIA POLICY (GMP) WORKING GROUP PROGRAM IAMCR Montreal 2015, UQAM, 13-16 July 2015, http://congresiamcr.uqam.ca/ Session 1: Tues 14 July, 16.00-17.30 hrs – Room DS-1545 Internet Governance: Updates & Critical Takes on a Policy Puzzle (Joint Session GMP & Taskforce on Media and Communications Policy) Session 2: Wed 15 July, 09.00-10.30 hrs – Room DS-1545 Mapping as Relevant Knowledge? Research, Politics, Practicalities Session 3: Wednesday 15 July, 14.00-15.30 hrs – Room DS-1545 Mapping Communications Governance – International Collaborations and Practical Challenges Session 4: Wednesday 15 July, 16.00-17.30 hrs – Room DS-1545 Business Meeting of Global Media Policy Working Group Session 5: Thursday 16 July 2015, 09.00-10.30 hrs - DS1525 Gendering Global Media Policy: Critical Perspectives on ‘Digital Agendas’ — In memory of Dr. Heike Jensen (Communication Policy and Technology Section & Global Media Policy Working Group) Full details of GMP program below & at http://bit.ly/1KIWZMg Global Media Policy Working Group program IAMCR Montréal 2015 Session 1: Tues 14 July Slot Code: GMP-T3a Time: 16.00-17.30 hrs Room: DS-1545 Title: Internet Governance: Updates & Critical Takes on a Policy Puzzle (Joint Session GMP & Taskforce on Media and Communications Policy) Chair: Jeremy Shtern (Ryerson University) The Internet is central to contemporary media, but its governance is complex, dynamic, and dispersed across different arena. This interactive session will feature latest updates and analyses from scholars and activists at the frontlines of global Internet governance, with a particular focus on the different civil society, policy, and research agendas in play. Topics will include: ICANN/IANA stewardship transition; Global Conference on Cyberspace; Internet Governance Forum; Internet Social Forum; Net Mundial; WSIS +10; civil society agendas. Participants: Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam) James Losey (Stockholm University) Mallory Knodel (Association for Progressive Communications) Stephanie Perrin (University of Toronto) Julie Pohle (SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Arne Hintz (Cardiff University) Session 2: Wed 15 July Slot Code: GMP-W1a Time: 09.00-10.30 hrs Room: DS-1545 Title: Mapping as Relevant Knowledge? Research, Politics, Practicalities Chair: Claudia Padovani (University of Padova) Given the number of ‘mapping projects’ that have emerged over the past few years related to communication and digital policies, this session reflects on two intertwined questions they pose: * how relevant is all this mapping to policy and advocacy engagement? To what extent, and in what conditions, do these initiatives may actually contribute to more participatory practices, better informed policy decisions, and better media (typicallly the common goals of different mapping initiatives). * what of the practical challenges in the establishment and development of these initiatives: platform population, content generation and sharing, sustainability of projects (expert knowledge, skills, human and financial resources), language diversity and accessibility, comprehensiveness or gaps in policy information and analysis. The session will feature interventions and discussions from leading policy scholars and experts. A key aim is to share ideas on how to better integrate critical research into existing initiatives, and develop forms of cooperation across these and other emergent forms of policy knowledge. Participants: Arne Hintz (Cardiff University) and Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney) ­­— IAMCR Mapping Media Policy Samantha Grassle & Stefaan Verhulst (Govlab, New York University) Annabelle Sreberny (SOAS, University of London) Francesca Musiani (French National Centre for Scientific Research) Marjan de Bruin (University of West Indies) Robin Mansell (London School of Economics) Session 3: Wednesday 15 July Slot Code: GMP-W2a Time: 14.00-15.30 hrs Room: DS-1545 Title: Mapping Communications Governance – International Collaborations and Practical Challenges Internet governance is increasingly complex, fragmented and hard to navigate. A number of projects have emerged to map this complex landscape and identify issues, existing responses and policies, actors and actions. These include, among others, the European GIPO; Mapping Global Media Policy; the NETmundial Initiative. While these efforts serve different needs and audiences, there is a need to coordinate and collaborate. This session will reflect on the current state of play and conduct an examination of whether these mapping efforts can provide a joined-up infrastructure of both research and information exchange. The session, designed as a workshop, will address questions surrounding mapping best practices, effective methods to develop taxonomies, how to ensure interoperability and coordination among Mapping projects, and effective methods to populate data. Participants: Arne Hintz (Cardiff University), Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney), Claudia Padovani (University of Padova), Marc Raboy (McGill University) — Mapping Global Media Policy Samantha Grassle and Stefaan Verhulst (GovLab, New York University) — Netmundial Solutions Map Session 4: Wednesday 15 July Slot Code: GMP-W3a Time: 16.00-17.30 hrs Room: DS-1545 Title: Business Meeting of Global Media Policy Working Group Chair: Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney) Session 5: Thursday 16 July 2015 Slot Code: CPT-TH1a Time: 09.00-10.30 hrs Room: DS1525 Title: Gendering Global Media Policy: Critical Perspectives on ‘Digital Agendas’ — - In memory of Dr. Heike Jensen (CPT and the Global Media Policy Working Group) Convenors: Claudia Padovani (University of Padova) and Leslie Shade (University of Toronto) Chair: Lisa McLaughlin ( <mailto:mclauglm@miamioh.edu>Miami University) Discussant: Jo Pierson (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Twenty years have passed since the international community committed to foster gender equity in communication by increasing ‘the participation and access of women to expression and decision-making in and through the media and new technologies of communication” (Beijing 1995, Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Section J). Much work remains to improve persistent gender inequalities across societies and major transformations – in technology and infrastructures, normative frameworks and policy arrangements - that have marked communication landscapes globally. 2015 also marks ten years since the World Summit on Information Society, a relevant moment in international debates about digital governance. This offers opportunities to the scholarly community and other stakeholders to assess the progress made in relation to the WSIS Plan of Action and to critically discuss gender-aware approaches to current trends in communication governance. This panel features expert speakers from diverse geo-cultural contexts, from academia and the advocacy and policy sector, to address questions related to ‘digital agendas’: overall frameworks and strategies for the development and implementation of digital policies being adopted in most regional and national contexts. It is now crucial to assess if and how such strategies live up to the commitment, made twenty years ago, of fostering women’s participation in communication and of mainstreaming gender across all sectors. These issues relate to the 2015 conference theme, as gendered-aspects of communication policies touch upon dynamics of empowerment, disempowerment, cultural hegemony and forms of resistance. The panel also contributes toward IAMCR’s collaboration with the Unesco-promoted Global Alliance on Media and Gender (Gamag) whose aim is to contribute to a research agenda and to produce policy-relevant knowledge based on sound theoretical approaches and gender-sensitive analytical frameworks. Presentations: Claudia Padovani (University of Padova): Gendering European Communication Governance: The Challenge of Gender Mainstreaming Twenty Years After Beijing. Leslie Regan Shade (University of Toronto): Missing in Action: Gender in Canada’s Digital Agenda. Anita Gurumurty (IT for Change): Whose Digital Agendas? Unpacking What Counts for Policy. Anne Webb (Independent consultant Gender research design, training and management):Information and Communication Technology in a Gender Inequality Context: Research in Africa and the Middle East. Fiona Martin and Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney): Reconstructing the Ubiquitous End-User: The New Politics of Gender and Media Policy in Digital Government Services in Australia. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Gerard Goggin ARC Future Fellow Professor of Media and Communications Department of Media and Communications University of Sydney e: gerard.goggin@sydney.edu.au <applewebdata://58CAECF0-6F6E-47A3-9980-953EE0F9094E/gerard.goggin@sydney.e du.au> p: +61 2 9114 1218 m: +61 428 66 88 24 w: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/staff/gerard_goggin.shtml