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Professor Braman introduces the first issue of the journal with an exploration of the definition, scope, and relevance of the concept of “information policy.” She sets forth the five criteria which define it as a coherent field of study, and notes the timeliness of its having a journal, as information policy increasingly shapes the world in which we live.
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JOURNAL OF INFORMATION POLICY 1 (2011): 1-5.
DEFINING INFORMATION POLICY
BY SANDRA BRAMAN
Professor Braman introduces the first issue of the journal with an exploration of
the definition, scope, and relevance of the concept of “information policy.” She
sets forth the five criteria which define it as a coherent field of study, and notes the
timeliness of its having a journal, as information policy increasingly shapes the
world in which we live.
Historically, new scholarly journals appeared when new subjects of study achieved disciplinary or
subdisciplinary status. Today, they are also created when new audiences and communities of scholarly
practice appear. In the area of information policy, we see all three types of developments. As a subject
of study, information policy emerged as a distinct field during the last decades of the 20th century as
one manifestation of the shift from an industrial to an information society, in a manner parallel to
the appearance of the micro- and macro-economics of information. In both law and economics, the
new fields offer a coherent lens into ideas and realities that have long histories but that were not
previously understood to be related to each other. An audience for information policy analysis has
appeared among those undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, policymakers, policy analysts,
and members of the public who find it necessary to understand the combined effects of the laws and
regulations involving information from across legal silos historically treated as unrelated to each
other. The interdisciplinarity of the community of scholarly practice engaged in information policy
analysis is exemplified in the fact that the editors of this new journal sit in a college of
communications rather than in either an information science unit or a law school.
This is neither the time nor the place nor is there the space to engage in a comprehensive review
of the literature on information policy. This type of analysis can be found elsewhere in my own
work, and in that of a number of other scholars. Reviews of this literature fall into two types. Those
that focus on the phrase information policyitself are more narrow in focus, tend to report on a
much shorter history, and draw almost exclusively from information science. Those that orient
instead around the subject matter tend to be much more broad in their scope, place contemporary
information policy within a long historical context (even the Romans kept detailed records on their
Professor, Department of Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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citizens, and there were 21 provisions relating to information policy in the U.S. Constitution and Bill
of Rights1), and are more likely to be interdisciplinary in nature.
The classical narrow definition of information policy involves such issues as access to government
information, but the earliest use of the phrase information policyby governments actually referred
to propaganda efforts during World War I. During the 1970s and 1980s, national governments
around the world toyed with the notion of developing comprehensive national information
policies.” Such discussions marked a significant turning point in appreciation of the salience of
information policy. Though information policy creates the conditions under which all other decision
making, public discourse, and political activity take place, it was long considered low policy of
relative unimportance. The concept of a national information policy became possible only because
political leaders around the world came to recognize that, in fact, laws and regulations affecting
information are actually matters of high policyof overarching strategic importance. Although
ultimately few governments put comprehensive single information policy packages in place, the shift
in perspective indicated by relatively short-lived debates over national information policies was
enduring and the intensity of information policymaking has continued to increase worldwide.
One sign of the widespread appreciation for information policy today can be found in the scholarly
literature. A bibliographic search in late 2010 discovered over 60 scholarly journals that had recently
published articles with the phrase information policyin either the title or the topic of the article. A
non-exhaustive listing of the subjects addressed by these journals includes business and
management, health, energy, economics and economic development, food policy, intelligence,
regional studies, sociology, crisis management, environmental protection and ecology, marketing, the
humanities, public opinion, regional studies, computer science, national security, philosophy,
biotechnology, and organizational sociology as well as to-be-expected subjects such as government
and public administration, information science, library science, communication, and science and
technology studies.
In recent years, it is the broader, more interdisciplinary approach to information policy as seen in
the call for submissions to this journal that has thus become dominant, with the classical approach
to government information policy remaining a centrally important subset of the field. The editors of
this journal include “information and communications technologies, applications, users, institutions,
businesses, and cultureswithin their purview. Such a categorical listing makes it possible to bring
policy issues as disparate as access to broadband networks, privacy rights, and intellectual property
into the same conversation. For analytical purposes, we can go further.
Colloquially, information policy provides an umbrella term for all laws, regulations, and doctrinal
positions that deal with information, communication, and culture. More precisely:
1 Twenty of these principles are discussed in Sandra Braman, Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power (Cambridge,
MA.: MIT Press, 2006), but thanks to Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists for drawing to my
attention the additional constitutional requirement that the government report on public expenditures.
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Information policy is comprised of laws, regulations, and doctrinal positions and other decision
making and practices with society-wide constitutive effects involving information creation,
processing, flows, access, and use.
Marking the boundaries of the domain with information creation, processing, flows, access, and
use” provides a synthetic and succinct heuristic that meets important evaluative criteria. (1) It is valid.
This definition of the information policy domain has repeatedly demonstrated its utility for
identifying the information policy elements in a wide variety of types of legal instruments, from arms
control treaties to Supreme Court decisions. It is as valid for studying the history of information
policy as it is for proposed laws under debate today. (2) It is comprehensive. Whether the subject under
discussion is access to government information, mass media, the census, research funding, or
network neutrality, this approach makes it possible to analyze the issue at hand through common
lenses. Indeed, it provides a means of identifying information policy issues that may not have
historically been evident despite their constitutive impact, such as export controls, the census, and
rules for accounting systems. (3) It is theoretically sound, based on economic, social, political, and
cultural theories explicated in depth elsewhere in my work and that of many other authors. (4) It is
methodologically operationalizable; that is, it is a definitional approach that can be easily incorporated into
the operational details of uses of a variety of research methods. And (5) it is translatable into the
multiple languages in which the audiences of information policy speak, from those of traditional
types of legal analysis to the narratives of popular culture.
The distinctions among the five informational activities included in the definition above creation,
processing, flows, access, and use result from a synthesis of the many, many conceptualizations of
information production chains that are used implicitly and explicitly across disciplines. The more
elaborate version of my own conceptualization of the information production chain, for example,
further breaks down the notion of creation to treat the production of information (for example, via
journalistic practice or the scientific method), the creation of information de novo (during moments of
innovative artistic genius, or through spontaneous mutations of pre-existing information), and the
generation of information as we move through our institutional and personal lives (as when records
are generated about our marriages, educational degrees, and so forth). I distinguish between the
transportation of information and its distribution, and so on. Irrespective of the model of the
information production chain being used by an information policy analyst, though, the five
processes included in the definition will be evident.
Inevitably, the question of how to define information itself comes up. A review of the hundreds of
definitions of information that have been put forward finds that they fall into six types: information
as a resource, a commodity, perception of pattern, a basin of possibility, an agent, and a constitutive
force in society. Each of these has its use within information policy analysis and each represents a
different way of thinking about such matters as the relation between information and knowledge.
More than one of these may be useful at different stages of analyzing a specific piece of information
policy, though my view is that any policy analysis should begin and conclude with attention to the
constitutive and constitutional effects of decision making involving information.
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Otherdecision making practices are included in the definition of information policy because the
formal institutions and processes of geopolitically recognized governments dont operate in isolation
from decision making by the private sector, civil society efforts, and social and cultural trends.
Indeed, any specific configuration of formal government institutions, processes, and laws is best
understood as an expression of an inevitably ephemeral moment of relationships and structures
within a much broader legal field as understood in a Bourdieuian sense. This was always the case,
but is even more so during this period of fundamental transformations in law-state-society relations.
Analysis of information policy must therefore include not only (1) the formal decisions, decision
making processes, and entities of government; but also (2) the formal and informal decisions,
decision-making processes, and entities of both private and public sector entities of governance; and
(3) the cultural habits and predispositions of governmentality that sustain and enable both
governance and government.
Copyright law provides a vivid example of the necessity of taking all three of these into account.
Law itself comes from government, but the practices about which corporate content providers are
concerned are culturally based. It was pressure from the private sector that turned Internet service
providers into arms of the state for the purposes of treating alleged copyright infringers as guilty
before any judicial determination regarding the legality of the behavior challenged (under the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act). And it has been communities of practice, beginning with documentary
producers, who have produced their own best practices regarding fair use, who are successfully
pushing back to ensure that copyright law also continues to comply with the constitutional mandate
of ensuring that intellectual property serves society as a whole. A full understanding of
developments in copyright law, therefore, cannot be achieved without including governance and
governmentality as well as government in the analysis.
The editors describe the journal as international in scope. This is, of course, necessary in an
environment in which information policy decisions at all levels of the social structure are
interpenetrated. Cities, that is, sometimes now make foreign policy. The footprint of a broadcaster
may well not map onto the polity of a specific geopolitical entity, affecting what might be either
desired or possible from a given public sphere. Decisions made at the global level by ICANN work
themselves out daily in our private lives as we click on licensing agreements to get online, and when
we do so we are often voluntarily giving up constitutional rights.
There are other interdependencies. Technology design may be the instrument of law, or it may
provide a means of superseding the law altogether. Privacy may be a matter of property rights, and
vice versa. Surveillance reduces our right to access information via reading publicly available
newspapers when the readership of specific news items is tracked. Thus information policy analysts
will want to take policy precession into account interactions, that is, between the effects of two or
more different types of laws and regulations as they influence how any single law or regulation is
implemented and experienced on the ground.
This journals emphasis on current or near-currentlegal issues is a tough one. The problem goes
in both directions, so let me offer two examples. Looking back, policymakers dealing with network
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neutrality cannot possibly make informed decisions without understanding the long history of
universal access in telecommunications and the even longer history of protections for free speech
from the perspective of what is required to have meaningful access to participation in political
decision making. Looking forward, it is likely to be a number of years before we see actual laws and
regulations protecting us against inference” and “aggregationattacks, even though practice is
underway and gaining in sophistication. The development of arguments against classifying certain
modes of logic as illegal will also take many years. If those interested in protecting the public interest
in information policy wait until laws in this area will be voted upon, it will be many years too late to
effectively begin to mount a constitutional defense.
This brings us back, again, to “why?” The sociological, political, legal, and intellectual arguments for
launching a journal on information policy are clear. For the individual, the question is deontological.
Information policy involves decision making and practice that shape the conditions under which we
can learn about the factors shaping the world in which we live, speak with each other about shared
matters of public concern, and exercise agency in our lives as individuals and communities. Legal
and political language describing the motivation of engaging in this work at least for this thinker
comes from the world of human rights and civil liberties. The motivation can also be depicted in
phenomenological terms: This is work that addresses the means by which social forms based upon
the most fundamental of cultural values, and the relations with the human and natural environments
that they uniquely enable, can survive under 21st century technological, political, and ecological
conditions.
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