Call for Proposals: “Internet Freedom: Present and Future” at the Internet Freedom Festival

Where: Internet Freedom Festival, Las Naves, Valencia, Spain

When: March 6-10, 2017

Submission deadline: Oct 2, 2016

Since 2015, the Internet Freedom Festival has gathered the community keeping the internet open and uncensored for a week of multidisciplinary collaboration among front-line activists, policy experts, tool developers, digital security trainers, and academic researchers from around the world.

This year, the “Internet Freedom: Present and Future” theme will promote exchange and collaboration between the scholarly and practitioner communities. In preparing their submissions, researchers should consider the following provocations:

• What should practitioners from the various sectors represented at the Festival know from the scholarly literature?

• What is the canon of Internet Freedom literature? In what ways is the canon being contested?

• What is the cutting edge of scholarly research in this field?

• How can this information best be conveyed to lay audiences?

Proposals can structured as solo presentations of original research, critical literature reviews, panel discussions, roundtables, debates, or any other format suitable to sharing scholarly research with Internet Freedom practitioners. Standard formats for the IFF include:

• Workshop

• Training

• Hackathon

• Presentation

• Panel discussion

• Networking event

• Off-site session

• Other: you can also create your own formats, as long as they fit within the allocated times and spaces.

The full submission guidelines are at https://internetfreedomfestival.org/host-a-session/

Graduate students, early-career academics, and scholars from the Global South are especially encouraged to apply.

The Theme

How should the future of the Internet Freedom space look? How can we get there from here? The Internet Freedom: Present and Future Theme is dedicated to explore the current state of the Internet Freedom space, its overarching issues, the latest research findings, and the upcoming threats and opportunities. Naturally, sessions that explore the history of Internet Freedom are also relevant.

How to Apply

Proposals should be submitted through https://internetfreedomfestival.org/host-a-session/, selecting the “Internet Freedom: Present and Future” theme. Please refer to the “Research” theme in the session description. Submissions will be evaluated through a peer-review process comprising academics as well as internet freedom practitioners.

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The Internet Freedom Festival Team
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