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Between coordination and regulation: Finding the governance in Internet governance Open
Following recent theoretical contributions, this article suggests a new approach to finding the governance in Internet governance. Studies on Internet governance rely on contradictory notions of governance. The common understanding of gove…
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Tiered Governance and Demonetization: The Shifting Terms of Labor and Compensation in the Platform Economy Open
Social media platforms have profoundly transformed cultural production, in part by restructuring the terms by which culture is distributed and paid for. In this article, we examine the YouTube Partner Program and the controversies around t…
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The Turn to Infrastructure in Internet Governance Open
This edited volume brings together experts from around the world to provide coverage and analysis of infrastructure's role in Internet governance, both now and in the future. Never in history have con
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The ‘golden view’: data-driven governance in the scoring society Open
Drawing on the first comprehensive investigation into the uses of data analytics in UK public services, this article outlines developments and practices surrounding the upsurge in data-driven forms of what we term ‘citizen scoring’. This r…
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China's Solution to Global Cyber Governance: Unpacking the Domestic Discourse of “Internet Sovereignty” Open
Under Xi Jinping's leadership, China has actively promoted “Internet sovereignty” as a means to reshape the discourse and practices of global cyber governance. By analyzing Chinese‐language literature, this article unpacks the Chinese disc…
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The International Trade Regime and the Quest for Free Digital Trade Open
The global economy is experiencing the digitalization of production, exchange, and consumption of goods and services. The internet and cross-border data flows are becoming important channels of trade as more products are traded through the…
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Networked Authoritarianism and the Geopolitics of Information: Understanding Russian Internet Policy Open
In the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. election, researchers, policymakers and the general public are grappling with the notion that the 45th president of the United States may very well owe his electoral victory to a sophisticated propaganda e…
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Authority conflicts in internet governance: Liberals vs. sovereigntists? Open
We analyse conflicts over norms and institutions in internet governance. In this emerging field, dispute settlement is less institutionalised and conflicts take place at a foundational level. Internet governance features two competing sphe…
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One in Three: Internet Governance and Children’s Rights Open
Typically, in the discussions around the use of the Internet, children are acknowledged only in the context of child protection while their rights to provision and participation are overlooked. This paper specifically argues against an age…
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The Janus Face of the Liberal International Information Order: When Global Institutions Are Self-Undermining Open
Scholars and policymakers long believed that norms of global information openness and private-sector governance helped to sustain and promote liberalism. These norms are being increasingly contested within liberal democracies. In this arti…
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Doing internet governance: practices, controversies, infrastructures, and institutions Open
This special makes an argument for, and illustrates, the applicability of a science and technology studies (STS) informed approach to internet governance research. The conceptual framework put forward in this editorial and the articles com…
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Huawei Versus the United States? The Geopolitics of Exterritorial Internet Infrastructure Open
The U.S. government’s recent indictment on Huawei—the Chinese telecom giant—can be used as a case study to unpack the increasing complexity in global Internet governance. By delineating the history of Huawei’s development and encounters in…
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Standardising the splinternet: how China’s technical standards could fragment the internet Open
China’s drive for technological dominance has resulted in a long-term, government-driven national strategy. This includes the creation of native technologies which reflect local policies and politics, micromanagement of the internet from t…
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Coding and encoding rights in internet infrastructure Open
This article explores bottom-up grassroots ordering in internet governance, investigating the efforts by a group of civil society actors to inscribe human rights in internet infrastructure, lobbying the Internet Corporation for Assigned Na…
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Societal Constitutionalism: Alternatives to State-Centred Constitutional Theory? Open
A group of globalisation critics are suing a commercial host provider of the Internet. The case ties together into a single focal point a range of fundamental problems that the digitalisation of communication is throwing up anew. It is not…
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Reshaping the internet – the impact of the securitisation of internet infrastructure on approaches to internet governance: the case of Russia and the EU Open
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The Public Core of the Internet: An international Agenda for Internet Governance Open
The growth and health of our digital economies and societies depend on the core protocols and infrastructure of the Internet. This technical and logical substructure of our digital existence is now in need of protection against unwarranted…
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Internet of Things, cybersecurity and governing wicked problems: learning from climate change governance Open
The implementation of the Internet of Things (IoT) is central to what the World Economic Forum has coined the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’; a technological revolution built upon cyber-physical systems that will blur the lines between the…
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Disclosing and concealing: internet governance, information control and the management of visibility Open
The ubiquity of digital technologies and the datafication of many domains of social life raise important questions about governance. In the emergent field of internet governance studies, most work has explored novel governance arrangements…
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Migrating Servers, Elusive Users: Reconfigurations of the Russian Internet in the Post-Snowden Era Open
In response to the growing censorship of their national Internet, Russian users, content producers and service providers have developed several resistance tactics. This paper analyzes these tactics with particular attention paid to their m…
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Centrality and power. The struggle over the techno‐political configuration of the Internet and the global digital order Open
In recent years, various governments have been trying to subordinate the Internet to the system of the Westphalian state order. This article seeks to add a new layer to the analysis of this conflict over state sovereignty and the global di…
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Aligning the international protection of ‘the public core of the internet’ with state sovereignty and national security Open
The norm to protect the public core of the internet, originally advocated by the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy, can be operationalised in two ways. Both a layered approach and a functional approach to defining the pu…
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IoT safety and security as shared responsibility Open
Vinton G. Cerf - Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Alphabet Inc.Address: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USAE-mail: [email protected] S. Ryan - Strategy & Operations Principal, Alphabet Inc.Address: 160…
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Digital neo-colonialism: The Chinese model of internet sovereignty in Africa Open
China is making a sustained effort to become a 'cyber superpower'. An integral part of this effort is the propagation by Beijing of the notion of 'internet sovereignty' - China's supreme right to govern the internet within its borders and …
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Governing Internet Territory Open
This paper examines the legal and Internet governance controversies over country code top-level domain names (ccTLDs). In recent litigation (Weinstein v. Islamic Republic of Iran and ICANN), terrorism victims argued that ccTLDs are propert…
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The African Union Convention on Cybersecurity: A Regional Response Towards Cyber Stability? Open
Following the liberalization of telecommunication markets in African States, and the increasing availability of wireless technologies and broadband capacity, the levels of Internet penetration and ICT access in Africa has continued to grow…
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Let's Meet Halfway: Sharing New Responsibilities in a Digital Age Open
Which legal instrument can effectively address current challenges in social media governance and how do companies take their share, shifting away from opaque enforcement of terms of services and increasingly copying governmental structures…
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Global Internet Governance in Chinese Academic Literature Open
This article explores the apparently ambivalent foundations of the notion of cybersovereignty as seen from China, through some of the most recent Chinese academic literature on global Internet governance. It shows that the sampled authors …
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’Governance by Things’ as a challenge to regulation by law Open
In this paper the authors examine how the rise of the Internet of Things will challenge regulatory structures. Coming from the idea of “code as law” the shift from technology governing online spaces to physical spaces is described as a new…
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Internet Architecture and Human Rights: Beyond the Human Rights Gap Open
Internet architecture and infrastructure are generally not at the top of the concerns of end users, and the overlying logical arrangements of root services, domain names, and protocols remain largely invisible to its users. Recent developm…