Research Handbook on Information Policy

Edited by Alistair S. Duff, Visiting Scholar, Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Open University of Catalonia, Spain and Emeritus Professor of Information Policy, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland

‘This useful collection of twenty-eight chapters presents an insightful view of the history of the information policy concept, and theory and developments in the field. The authors are drawn from a variety of disciplines, from philosophy to journalism, via communication studies and information science. They also represent a wider range of countries than is typical of this kind of compilation, coming from Spain, Canada, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Germany, and Israel, although the majority are from the United Kingdom and the USA. Consequently, the range of cultural, political, scientific, and economic factors that provide the context for policy are more diverse than one would find in a text devoted to any single country. The editor has done an excellent job in pulling these authors together and producing a text that will benefit researchers and students of information policy. . . I reiterate that the text is an excellent compilation of contributions to the field and will no doubt become a standard reference on the subject.’

• Contents:Foreword xvYouichi Ito1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Information Policy 1Alistair S. DuffPART I GENERAL THEORYTHE NATURE OF INFORMATION POLICY2 Intervention and aesthetics: the nature of information policy 25Ian Cornelius3 Ecstasy and entropy: information policy in a punctuated case 40Sandra Braman4 Prophetic v. priestly: alternative modes of information policy 56Steve FullerTHE HISTORY OF INFORMATION POLICY5 Information policy before information policies? Conceptual andhistorical considerations 69László Z. Karvalics6 Aspects of the history of state information policies in Britain before thedigital age 80Alistair Black7 International information policy: UNESCO in historical perspective 96Julia PohleTHE FUTURE OF INFORMATION POLICY8 The future of information policy: preparing for transformational change 114Richard D. Taylor9 The ecology of games reshaping information policy: internet access inBelarus to cyber harms in the United Kingdom 130William H. Dutton and Aljona Zorina10 The intertwined futures of information policy and information literacy 146Paul T. Jaeger and Natalie Greene TaylorPART II SPECIFIC ISSUESPRIVACY11 Fifty-plus years of information privacy policy-making: the more thingschange, the more they remain the same 159Priscilla M. Regan12 An equity view of public reason: privacy and surveillance policy associal justice 174Michael A. Katell13 Privacy’s progress: privacy as a progressive ideal for information policy 189Alistair S. DuffFREEDOM OF INFORMATION14 Freedom of information: a constitutive public good in democratic societies 205Ivan Szekely15 Freedom of information: a state of the art 220Ben Worthy16 Public or private? Freedom of information and the Scottish struggle forscrutiny of public bodies 237Ben McConvilleFREEDOM OF EXPRESSION17 Freedom of expression in a datafied world 250Arne Hintz18 Agility in an age of information ubiquity: freedom of expression andinformation policy 263Emily J.M. Knox19 Gatecrashers? Freedom of expression in an age-gated internet 276Victoria NashINTELLECTUAL PROPERTY20 Rights and wrongs: old and new perspectives on copyright 291John Feather21 Intellectual property and the reliability of content: the case for moral rights 306Margaret Ann Wilkinson22 The ratcheting racket: the global political economy of copyright policy-making 323Blayne HaggartINFORMATION INEQUALITY23 Information inequality: realization of capabilities as an information policy goal 341Amit M. Schejter24 Planning and evaluating policy to address information inequalities: anInformation Worlds Matrix approach 357Kim M. Thompson25 How (not) to deepen information inequality via information policy:a contribution of the contextual approach 368Petr LupačPART III SPECIAL INFORMATION26 Genetic information: fundamental issues 385Ruth Chadwick27 Ethical challenges for the production and dissemination of officialstatistics in the big data environment 398Catherine Heeney28 Informing the public sphere: Walter Lippmann on democracy and news,with a coda on Jurgen Habermas 413Sue Curry JansenIndex