Institute for Information Policy at Penn State

12/17/2025

The Journal of Information Policy completes 15 years.

Penn State’s Journal of Information Policy is celebrating 15 years as a leading source of research for policymakers and scholars, while continuing to adapt to a fast-changing digital landscape.

04/17/2025

IIP is proud to present a talk by Dr. Varadharajan Sridhar, Professor at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, at Bengaluru, India, on the topic “My data or yours?”: Unravelling Multi-Party Privacy (MPP) and its implications for Digital Borrowers"

April 22, 12-1 pm, EDT. Email [email protected] for Zoom information and other details

08/19/2024

For completing 25 years at Penn State

05/21/2024

IIP Co-Director Krishna Jayakar will speak tomorrow, May 22, 2024 at the International Institute for Information Technology at Bengaluru, India.

01/26/2024

On January 24, I was honored to be awarded the Richard Barber prize for Distinguished Service by the Pacific Telecommunications Council at their 2024 annual conference in Honolulu, HI.

05/28/2019

Photographs from the very successful ICA preconference workshop on social media policy organized by the IIP and the Quello Center at Michigan State. With Amit Schejter, Johannes Bauer, Krishna Jayakar, Sascha Meinrath, Bibi Reisdorf and Michael Krieger. A full program available at https://bellisario.psu.edu/research/centers/iip

04/15/2019

IIP is partnering with the Quello Center at Michigan State to present a preconference workshop titled "Taming and Nurturing the Wild Child: Government and Corporate Policies for Social Media" at the International Communication Association (ICA) Convention, on May 24, 2019 at the Washington Hilton, in Washington DC.

You can register for the workshop at a discounted price of $50 subsidized by the IIP and Quello Center) at https://www.icahdq.org/event/2019TamingandNurturingtheWildChild. Registration comes with a buffet lunch and two coffee breaks. A limited number of seats are available, since the room capacity is limited. Register early to ensure your seat.

A competitively selected set of papers from leading academicians and budding scholars will be presented at the workshop, addressing the legal, economic, organizational and ethical dimensions of social media policy. How can policy -- defined broadly, including government policies, regulations and laws and the policies of corporations including algorithmic screening of content and emergent norms --be developed, while protecting societal values such as freedom of speech and information? The workshop program is available here:https://bellisario.psu.edu/assets/uploads/ICA_2019_workshop_program_final.pdf

11/14/2018

IIP is organizing its next workshop "Government and Corporate Policies for Social Media" on May 24, 2019 as a pre-conference at the ICA Annual convention in Washington, DC. A Call for Proposals (CFP) is available at the IIP website (https://bellisario.psu.edu/research/centers/iip), due date December 15.

The Institute for Information Policy is a joint venture of the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications and the College of Information Sciences and Technology.

10/15/2018

Congratulations to IIP Co-Director Amit Schejter, who is now Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. All good wishes, Amit.

Prof. Amit M. Schejter has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, it was announced Sunday. He replaces Prof. Chaim Hames, recently appointed as BGU's Rector.

10/05/2018

IIP Co-Directors Amit Schejter and Carleen Maitland and Doctoral Fellow Yang Bai presenting at TPRC 2018, at American University. Affiliated Faculty Ben Cramer and Rob Frieden and Co-Director Krishna Jayakar rounded out the strong IIP presence.