This comprehensive and innovative Research Handbook tackles the pressing issues confronting us at the dawn of the global network society, including freedom of speech, government transparency and the digital divide.
Representing a milestone in information policy research, this new volume edited by Alistair Duff brings together leading contributors from a wide range of disciplines to discuss important topics such as genetic information, news and privacy, and provides case studies on cyber harms, freedom of information and national digitization policy. Engaging with controversial problems of public policy including freedom of expression, copyright and information inequality, the Research Handbook on Information Policy offers a well-rounded exploration of the history and future of this vital field.
Systematically addressing both general theory and specific issues, as well as providing international perspectives, this Research Handbook will be of particular interest to academics and students in the disciplines of information science, journalism and media studies, politics, sociology, philosophy and law.
Contents:
Foreword xv
Youichi Ito
1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Information Policy 1
Alistair S. Duff
PART I GENERAL THEORY
THE NATURE OF INFORMATION POLICY
2 Intervention and aesthetics: the nature of information policy 25
Ian Cornelius
3 Ecstasy and entropy: information policy in a punctuated case 40
Sandra Braman
4 Prophetic v. priestly: alternative modes of information policy 56
Steve Fuller
THE HISTORY OF INFORMATION POLICY
5 Information policy before information policies? Conceptual and
historical considerations 69
László Z. Karvalics
6 Aspects of the history of state information policies in Britain before the
digital age 80
Alistair Black
7 International information policy: UNESCO in historical perspective 96
Julia Pohle
THE FUTURE OF INFORMATION POLICY
8 The future of information policy: preparing for transformational change 114
Richard D. Taylor
9 The ecology of games reshaping information policy: internet access in
Belarus to cyber harms in the United Kingdom 130
William H. Dutton and Aljona Zorina
10 The intertwined futures of information policy and information literacy 146
Paul T. Jaeger and Natalie Greene Taylor
PART II SPECIFIC ISSUES
PRIVACY
11 Fifty-plus years of information privacy policy-making: the more things
change, the more they remain the same 159
Priscilla M. Regan
12 An equity view of public reason: privacy and surveillance policy as
social justice 174
Michael A. Katell
13 Privacy's progress: privacy as a progressive ideal for information policy 189
Alistair S. Duff
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
14 Freedom of information: a constitutive public good in democratic societies 205
Ivan Szekely
15 Freedom of information: a state of the art 220
Ben Worthy
16 Public or private? Freedom of information and the Scottish struggle for
scrutiny of public bodies 237
Ben McConville
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
17 Freedom of expression in a datafied world 250
Arne Hintz
18 Agility in an age of information ubiquity: freedom of expression and
information policy 263
Emily J.M. Knox
19 Gatecrashers? Freedom of expression in an age-gated internet 276
Victoria Nash
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
20 Rights and wrongs: old and new perspectives on copyright 291
John Feather
21 Intellectual property and the reliability of content: the case for moral rights 306
Margaret Ann Wilkinson
22 The ratcheting racket: the global political economy of copyright policy-making 323
Blayne Haggart
INFORMATION INEQUALITY
23 Information inequality: realization of capabilities as an information policy goal 341
Amit M. Schejter
24 Planning and evaluating policy to address information inequalities: an
Information Worlds Matrix approach 357
Kim M. Thompson
25 How (not) to deepen information inequality via information policy:
a contribution of the contextual approach 368
Petr Lupac
PART III SPECIAL INFORMATION
26 Genetic information: fundamental issues 385
Ruth Chadwick
27 Ethical challenges for the production and dissemination of official
statistics in the big data environment 398
Catherine Heeney
28 Informing the public sphere: Walter Lippmann on democracy and news,
with a coda on Jurgen Habermas 413
Sue Curry Jansen
Index
