This special issue of Internet Policy Review is the first to bring together the best policy-oriented papers presented at the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). This issue is anchored in the 2017 conference in Tartu. Estonia. which was organised around the theme of networked publics. https://www.roneverhart.com/Pitkin-Ave-east-toward-Stone-Avenue-Brownsville-Mother-Gaston-Blvd-1964/