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P E C I A L
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What
are the
invisible
politics at
work in the
governance of
the internet?
Do companies
frame the work
of app
developers and
webmasters?
What are the
power
structures
behind
Bitcoin? Was
the Free
Basics
controversy in
India a clear
case of the
clash of
ideologies?
These, and
many more
questions are
tackled within
the most
recent
publication Doing Internet Governance: The Practices, Controversies,
Infrastructures, and Institutions of the Internet Policy Review.
This
special issue
makes an
argument for,
and
illustrates,
the
applicability
of a science
and technology
studies (STS)
informed
approach to
internet
governance
research. An
editorial and
ten articles
by a broad
range of
scholars aim
to add to the
mainstream
internet
governance
scholarship by
unpacking
macro
questions of
politics and
power. They do
so through the
analysis of
the mundane
and
taken-for-granted
practices and
discourses
that
constitute the
design,
regulation,
maintenance,
and use of
both technical
and
institutional
arrangements
of internet
governance.
Together, this
body of work
calls to
rethink how we
conceptualise
both internet
and
governance.
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