Researching Internet Governance Methods, Frameworks, Futures

by Denardis, Laura; Cogburn, Derrick; Levinson, Nanette S.; Musiani, Francesca

• ISBN13: 9780262539753
• ISBN10: 0262539756
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2020-09-08
• Publisher: The MIT Press

Summary

Scholars from a range of disciplines discuss research methods, theories, and conceptual approaches in the study of internet governance.

The design and governance of the internet has become one of the most pressing geopolitical issues of our era. The stability of the economy, democracy, and the public sphere are wholly dependent on the stability and security of the internet. Revelations about election hacking, facial recognition technology, and government surveillance have gotten the public's attention and made clear the need for scholarly research that examines internet governance both empirically and conceptually. In this volume, scholars from a range of disciplines consider research methods, theories, and conceptual approaches in the study of internet governance.

Author Biography

Laura DeNardis is a Professor in the School of Communication at American University, Washington, D.C., and the coauthor of Information Technology in Theory.

Sandra Braman is Professor in the Department of Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the editor of Communication Researchers and Policy-Making (MIT Press, 2003).

Laura DeNardis is a Professor in the School of Communication at American University, Washington, D.C., and the coauthor of Information Technology in Theory.

Sandra Braman is Professor in the Department of Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the editor of Communication Researchers and Policy-Making (MIT Press, 2003).

Milton L. Mueller is Professor at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies. He is the author of Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2002) and other books.

Rikke Frank Jørgensen is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. She is the editor of Human Rights in the Global Information Society (MIT Press) and the author of Framing the Net: The Internet and Human Rights.

Ronald J. Deibert is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Citizen Lab and Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Introduction
1. Introduction: Internet Governance as an Object of Research Inquiry
2. The Irony of Internet Governance Research: Metagovernance as Context
3. Inventing Internet Governance: The Historical Trajectory of the Phenomenon and the Field
4. Science and Technology Studies Approaches to Internet Governance: Controversies and Infrastructures as Internet Politics
5. A Legal Lens into Internet Governance
6. Web Observatories: Gathering Data for Internet Governance
7. Taking the Growth of the Internet Seriously When Measuring Cybersecurity
8. Researching Technology Elites: Lessons Learned from Data Collection at Google and Facebook
9. Big Data Analytics and Text Mining in Internet Governance Research: Computational Analysis of Transcripts from 12 Years of the Internet Governance Forum
10. Studying Discourse in Internet Governance through Mailing-List Analysis
11. The Biases of Information Security Research
12. The Multistakeholder Concept as Narrative: A Discourse Analytical Approach
13. Toward Future Internet Governance Research and Methods: Internet Governance Learning
Editors
Contributors
Index