Researching Internet Governance: Methods, Frameworks, Futures

by Laura Denardis (Editor), Derrick Cogburn (Editor), Nanette S. Levinson (Editor), Francesca Musiani (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780262360852
Publisher:	MIT Press
Publication date:	09/08/2020
Series:	Information Policy
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Laura DeNardis is Professor and Interim Dean in the School of Communication at American University. Derrick L. Cogburn is Professor in the School of International Service at American University. Nanette S. Levinson is Associate Professor in the School of International Service at American University. Francesca Musiani is Associate Research Professor at and Deputy Director of the Center for Internet and Society at CNRS, Paris.

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