Journal of Information Policy (ISSN: 2158-3897)

Description

The Journal of Information Policy is published by the Institute for Information Policy at the Pennsylvania State University, and is made possible by a grant from the Ford Foundation. Experienced researchers and new voices from academia, industry, government, and civil society are welcome.
The journal is published online on a rolling basis, and submitted articles will be made available at www.jip-online.org as soon as possible after reviewing and editing is complete. Issues are assembled and paginated on an annual basis. All materials published in the Journal of Information Policy can be viewed and downloaded for free at the journal’s website.
The Journal of Information Policy is a refereed scholarly journal that is multidisciplinary and international in scope. The Journal publishes articles, comments, book reviews, literature reviews, and invited commentary in an electronic, online format. The Journal is designed to bring contemporary scholarly research and analysis of significant information policy issues to the attention of policymakers in a timely fashion.
The primary audience for the Journal includes policymakers; leaders in government, industry, and academia; legislators and their staffs; regulators; attorneys; standards bodies; and other participants in American and international policy discourse on information, communication, media, telecommunications, and the information society.
Topic Areas: We interpret the term information policy broadly, with the understanding that its meaning and parameters may evolve in a rapidly changing society. The term embraces the full range of information and communications users, institutions, technologies, applications, businesses, and cultures. Methodological approaches may include (but are not limited to) scientific, technological, economic, legal, social scientific, policy analysis, case studies, or comparative studies. Articles should provide insights and/or recommendations into issues that are timely and useful for decision makers.
The Journal invites contributions that address significant current or near-future information policy and regulatory issues. Topic areas of interest for the Journal of Information Policy include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Telecommunications (e.g. regulatory models and structures, universal service, digital divide, network neutrality, access charges, competition, etc.)
* Information society (e.g. knowledge production and distribution, e-readiness, quality of life metrics, e-government, e-commerce, etc.)
* Regulation and governance (e.g. statutes and amendments, regulatory issues, structure of regulatory agencies, etc.)
* Informatization (e.g. integrated views of information technology from an overall perspective)
* Access to government-held information
* National broadband plans
* Privacy
* Security
* Ethical issues of new technologies
* Intellectual property
* Gender and information technologies
* Community
* Electronic media industries
* Internet applications and services
* Unserved and underserved audiences
* Standards
* Mobile technologies
Proposal of other appropriate topics is invited.
Please note that Journal of Information Policy does not publish theses and dissertations.
Book Reviews: Interested persons are welcome to submit reviews of new books in the journal’s subject area. Book reviews will not be peer reviewed. The journal also welcomes books from publishers who wish for their new releases to be reviewed. Contact the Managing Editor at editor-AT-jip-online.org.