Student Call for Papers
The 38th Research Conference on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy
The National Center for Technology and Law
George Mason University Law School, Arlington, VA
October 1-3, 2010
STUDENT PAPER AWARD:
| First Prize: $1,000 | Second Prize: $500 | Third Prize: $300 |
The 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 the industry.
The TPRC offers the Student Paper Award to support and encourage excellence in telecommunications research and writing at the graduate level. All aspects of communication, information, and Internet policy are eligible for the award.
The result of the competition will be notified to all participants by June 15, 2010. Award recipients will be invited to attend and present their papers at the TPRC to be held October 1-3, 2010 at the George Mason University Law School, Arlington, Virginia. Award recipients (one per paper) will be exempt from the conference registration fee, receive free meals at the conference, two nights’ lodging at the conference hotel, and up to $500 towards travel costs.
This year we are particularly interested in papers addressing the following themes (for more detailed descriptions see http://www.tprc.org)
- Network Competition, Policy and Management
- Broadband Deployment, Adoption, and Measurement
- Spectrum Policy
- Societal Issues: Universality and Affordable Access
- The Transformation and Future of Media
- The Transformation and Future of Intellectual Property and Digital Rights
- Privacy, Security, Identity and Trust
- Internet Governance and Institutional Strategies for Information Policy
- Advanced Mobile Services: Broadband, Video, and New Applications
- The Internet Ecosystem
- Other Emerging Topics are highly encouraged
The competition is open to all persons who were graduate or law students on October 1, 2009. Thus, first-year faculty members, industry, and government professionals may be eligible. Papers may be based on research undertaken for a Master’s thesis, a Ph.D. dissertation, or other supervised analytical writing. Papers with multiple student authors all meeting these requirements are also eligible.
Full Student papers must be submitted by April 30, 2010. (Unlike the regular call, for which only abstracts are required, the student competition requires full papers to be submitted by April 30.)
Students also are encouraged to submit abstracts and panel session proposals (see the respective calls). Papers that are co-authored with a faculty member are not eligible for the Student Paper Award but may be submitted as regular conference papers. Faculty co-authors may not be added after a Student Paper Award has been granted.
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