Call for Papers - Information Influx Conference
Call for papers: During its Information Influx Conference (2-4 July 2014), the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam wishes to give outstanding young researchers the opportunity to present their research findings to the scholarly community. The author(s) of the best contribution will receive the Information Influx Young Scholars Award.
When IViR set up its research 25 years ago, the digital transition was just starting to gather speed. Since then, our societies have been undergoing enormous changes in the modes of expression, organization and (re)use of information. Traditional roles of producers, intermediaries, users and governments blur and are recast. Information is the central building block of market economies. New ways of creating, disseminating and using it impact the workings of democracy, of science and education, creativity and culture. Information Influx will bridge disciplines, regions and institutional perspectives to confront the major challenges of developing the rules that govern the expression, organization and re(use) of information in our society. Against this backdrop, the conference aims to explore societally and economically relevant themes, along three pivotal concepts for the future of information law: express, organize and re(use).
Authors are invited to submit contributions which deal with current developments in all information law areas including:
• open access
• digitization
• creativity
• media diversity
• internet censorship
• cybersecurity
• news
• pervasive profiling and privacy in public
• sport rights
• and more generally intellectual property law, media law and privacy law
Papers are invited from young academics (PhD candidates or beginning scholars) working in legal and non-legal but related disciplines. Papers addressing relevant topics from the perspective of new business models or start-up companies in the information society will also be considered.
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Please submit an abstract in the English language (300-500 words), to informationinflux-ivir@uva.nl before 1st January 2014. Authors of accepted submissions will be notified at the beginning of February 2014. Final papers (max. 10,000 words) must be delivered together with a short biography of the author(s) before 15 May 2014. Authors of selected papers will be admitted to the conference free of charge. The winner of the Information Influx Young Scholars Award will be announced at the opening ceremony of the Conference on 2nd July 2014. Papers will be published in a special edition of top law journal.
