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Telecommunications Policy Research Conference
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Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 01:15:33 -0500 (EST)
From: "Juan F. Riveros"
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CALL FOR PAPERS The Twenty-Sixth Annual TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH CONFERENCE http://www.si.umich.edu/~prie/tprc/
October 3-5, 1998 Radisson Mark Plaza, Alexandria, Virginia
The Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) is an annual forum for dialogue among scholars and decision-makers from the public and private sectors engaged in communication and information policy. The purpose of the conference is to acquaint policymakers with the best of recent research and to familiarize researchers with the knowledge needs of policymakers and industry. The TPRC program is assembled from submitted abstracts, invited papers and proposals for complete sessions.
TPRC is now soliciting research papers or session proposals for presentation at its 1998 conference. Papers should be based on current theoretical and/or empirical research relevant to the making of communication and information policy, and may be from any disciplinary perspective. TPRC welcomes national, international, or comparative studies. Subject areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to:- 1996 Telecom Act- Universal Service- Wireless Services- Unintended Consequences of Regulation- Unbundling the Local Loop- State Regulation- Convergence: Technological Developments and Regulatory Implications- Privacy (Crypto, Anonymity, Personal Data)- Intellectual Property- Content Control- Information Infrastructure Security- Taxation of Internet Services- Antitrust, Concentration and Mergers- Household Information Environments- Internet and Telephone Numbers and Names- Internet Jurisdiction- Software Competition- Internet/Intranet Effects on Organizations- Electronic Commerce- Communication Reform in Developing Countries- Spectrum Allocation and Auctions- New Satellite Systems- Infrastructure Investment- Pirate Broadcasting- Transition to Digital TV- Competitive Models of Mass Media
Submissions must be sent electronically to Dawn Higgins at tprc@ei.com and should consist of an abstract of a paper or session proposal in ASCII text. If a paper is available, it should be sent as an attachment in MS Word or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. In addition, it would be helpful to the Program Committee to submit with your abstract a one page CV which includes citations of relevant work. Submissions are due no later than March 27, 1998.
Selected papers will be required to be no more than 30 pages and will be due to TPRC by September 7, 1998. TPRC intends to provide access to all accepted papers either through publication on our web site or through a link to its publisher.
Inquiries may be made to Dawn Higgins: (202) 452-9033 Telecommunications Policy Research Conference P.O. Box 19203 Washington, DC 20036 ```
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