Coding and encoding rights in internet infrastructure

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 Names and Numbers. Adopting a Science and Technology Studies (S...

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Main Authors: Stefania Milan, Niels ten Oever
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society 2017-01-01
Series:Internet Policy Review
Online Access:https://policyreview.info/node/442
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Summary: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 Names and Numbers. Adopting a Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspective, we approach this struggle as a site of contestation, and expose the sociotechnical imaginaries animating policy advocacy. Combining quantitative mailing-list analysis, participant observation and qualitative discourse analysis, the article observes civil society in action as it contributes to shape policy in the realm of institutional and infrastructure design.
ISSN:2197-6775