CFP-- Chapter abstracts invited for a book on urban
communication regulation
Urban Communication Regulation: Designing Communication Abundance and Limits in the Urban Century
A volume edited by Susan Drucker and Harvey Jassem
Authors are invited to submit abstracts for chapters they propose writing for this volume. Chapters may be prescriptive or descriptive, and will discuss an issue where policy or regulation impacts the quality of urban communication. Please submit a one to two page abstract by August 15, 2015 to Harvey Jassem (Jassem@Hartford.edu).
We anticipate that selections for inclusion will be made in September, 2015, with selected chapters due January, 2016.
The 21st century has been dubbed the urban century. It is an era marked by recentralization and a return to the inner core after decades of suburban sprawl. It is an era of urban sprawl. It is the first century in which the majority of the world's people will live in urban areas with over three billion residents in cities representing a demographic transformation on an unprecedented scale. Cities have always been social settings.
There is a relationship between how we communicate with each other in social settings, the physical and virtual nature of those settings and the regulatory framework governing those settings. From a communication perspective, communication freedoms and opportunities are significant attributes used as determinants of quality of life in municipalities, and the purpose of this volume is to bring together people and ideas that argue for - or against - policy and legal approaches that impact the urban communication environment and experience.
Some regulations directly control free expression in cities through licensing and control of content. Some are more indirect, targeting non-communication related activities which nevertheless determine the nature of communicative interaction. These secondary regulations might include such things as anti-loitering, anti-littering, gambling and public nuisances and the licensing of alcoholic beverages, minimum drinking age and driving age, parking regulations, anti-babble locations prohibiting the use of mobile phones, street furniture, public utility ownership, etc. Similarly, land use regulations, especially zoning laws, all influence communication patterns. Additionally, much of the communication infrastructure is shaped by diverse regulations.
The contributing authors will demonstrate how governments, legislatures, property owners and courts are incentivizing and responding to changes in technology, demographics, economies, and cultures. This anthology will examine how primary and secondary regulation can shape the communicative environment of cities.
Chapters will focus on the legal and policy aspects of such topics as:
Urban Communication Regulation: Designing Communication Abundance and Limits in the Urban Century
A volume edited by Susan Drucker and Harvey Jassem
Authors are invited to submit abstracts for chapters they propose writing for this volume. Chapters may be prescriptive or descriptive, and will discuss an issue where policy or regulation impacts the quality of urban communication. Please submit a one to two page abstract by August 15, 2015 to Harvey Jassem (Jassem@Hartford.edu).
We anticipate that selections for inclusion will be made in September, 2015, with selected chapters due January, 2016.
The 21st century has been dubbed the urban century. It is an era marked by recentralization and a return to the inner core after decades of suburban sprawl. It is an era of urban sprawl. It is the first century in which the majority of the world's people will live in urban areas with over three billion residents in cities representing a demographic transformation on an unprecedented scale. Cities have always been social settings.
There is a relationship between how we communicate with each other in social settings, the physical and virtual nature of those settings and the regulatory framework governing those settings. From a communication perspective, communication freedoms and opportunities are significant attributes used as determinants of quality of life in municipalities, and the purpose of this volume is to bring together people and ideas that argue for - or against - policy and legal approaches that impact the urban communication environment and experience.
Some regulations directly control free expression in cities through licensing and control of content. Some are more indirect, targeting non-communication related activities which nevertheless determine the nature of communicative interaction. These secondary regulations might include such things as anti-loitering, anti-littering, gambling and public nuisances and the licensing of alcoholic beverages, minimum drinking age and driving age, parking regulations, anti-babble locations prohibiting the use of mobile phones, street furniture, public utility ownership, etc. Similarly, land use regulations, especially zoning laws, all influence communication patterns. Additionally, much of the communication infrastructure is shaped by diverse regulations.
The contributing authors will demonstrate how governments, legislatures, property owners and courts are incentivizing and responding to changes in technology, demographics, economies, and cultures. This anthology will examine how primary and secondary regulation can shape the communicative environment of cities.
Chapters will focus on the legal and policy aspects of such topics as:
- Rights of Assembly: protest, leafleting, picketing, guerilla protest, sit-lie, panhandling, begging ordinances
- Surveillance and privacy
- The privatization of public space and public utilities
- Broadband and Wi-fi: marketplace & regulatory threats and opportunities
- Signage, billboards, advertising on/in municipal & licensed property & facilities
- Zoning
- Sound Regulations
- Free Speech rights and Zones
- Newsrack/street furniture
- Graffiti
- Street performers
- Photo journalists/photography in public places
- Tenure in public schools
- Cities and strategies for enhancement of telecommunication infrastructure development/investment, including alternative ownership models
- 211, Apps, and other new telecommunication options for governing the urban experience.
- Private vs. Public investment
- Moving communication from regulated to unregulated arenas.
- Local ownership/control
- Policy strategies designed to enhance ITC access & affordability
