The internet is now a key part of everyday life across the developed world, and growing rapidly across developing countries. This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research on internet governance, written by the leading scholars in the field. With an international focus, it features contributions from lawyers, economists and political scientists across North America, Europe and Australia. They adopt a broad multidisciplinary perspective, taking in law, economics, political science, international relations, and communications studies. Thought-provoking chapters cover topics such as ICANN, the Internet Governance Forum, grassroots activism, innovation, human rights, privacy in social networks, and network neutrality. Being a forward-looking guide for the next decade, this Research Handbook will strongly appeal to scholars and graduate students in the social sciences studying and researching internet governance, political scientists, economists, lawyers and computer scientists working on governance issues, as well as regulators and policymakers responsible for internet governance in national governments and intergovernmental organisations.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Part I: Institutions and Networks of Governance 1. A Prehistory of Internet Governance; 2. ICANN and the Domain Name System after the ‘Affirmation of Commitments’; 3. Internet Addressing: Global Governance of Shared Resource Spaces; 4. Information Governance in Transition: Lessons to be Learned from Google Books; 5. The Legitimacy and Accountability of the Internet’s Governing Institutions; 6. Network Neutrality and Network Management Regulation: Quality of Service, Price Discrimination, and Exclusive Contracts: 7. Policy and Regulatory Requirements for a Future Internet; 8. Contract vs. Statute in Internet Governance; 9. Argument-by-Technology: How Technical Activism Contributes to Internet Governance Part II: Human Rights And Fundamental Freedoms 10. Data Protection in a Globalised Network; 11. Revisiting Policy Laundering and Modern International Policy Dynamics; 12. Child Abuse Images and Cleanfeeds: Assessing Internet Blocking Systems; 13. Privacy, Law, Code and Social Networking Sites; 14. An Internet Bill of Rights?; 15. Human Rights, Competition Law, and Access to Essential Technologies Part III: Networked Control 16. The New Intermediation: Contract, Identity, and the Future of Internet Governance; 17. Network Neutrality: A Research Guide; 18. Enhancing Incentives for Internet Security Index