Internet Public Policy Themes: A Literature Review

The current paper aims to present a literature review for the researches conducted on internet public policy themes and provides a classification scheme for future research agenda. this research conducts a literature review based on the studies published in english and in a peerreviewed journal from 1979 to 2015. simple criterion method was used to find articles. 427 articles identified in 267 academic journals. all these articles were analyzed by year of publication, number of articles in the selected journal and area topics. this extended literature review provides an exhaustive and valuable source for future internet public policy research for practitioners and scholars by presenting a comprehensive list of references. although, part of this article was published by (kashani kasmani, 2018), the references listing associated with each internet public policy issue is original.