Research handbook on governance of the Internet
By: edited by Ian Brown, University of Oxford, UK
Publisher: Edward Elgar; Elgar Publishing, Incorporated, Edward
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 499
ISBN-13: 9781849805025; 9781849805049
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Internet governance; Law and legislation; Internet
Other titles: Governance of the Internet
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A prehistory of internet governance  -- Malte Ziewitz and Ian Brown; title: ICANN and the domain name system after the 'Affirmation of Commitments'  -- A. Michael Froomkin; title: Internet addressing : global governance of shared resource spaces  -- Milton Mueller; title: Information governance in transition : lessons to be learned from Google Books  -- Jeanette Hofmann; title: The legitimacy and accountability of the internet's governing institutions  -- Rolf H. Weber; title: Network neutrality and network management regulation : quality of service, price discrimination, and exclusive contracts  -- Nicholas Economides and Joacim Tåg; title: Policy and regulatory requirements for a future internet  -- Jonathan Cave; title: Contract vs. statute in internet governance  -- Lee Bygrave; title: Argument-by-technology : how technical activism contributes to internet governance  -- Alison Powell; title: Data protection in a globalised network  -- Graham Greenleaf; title: Revisiting policy laundering and modern international policy dynamics  -- Gus Hosein; title: Child abuse images and cleanfeeds : assessing internet blocking systems  -- T.J. McIntyre; title: Privacy, law, code and social networking sites  -- Lilian Edwards; title: An internet bill of rights?  -- Rikke Frank Jørgensen; title: Human rights, competition law, and access to essential technologies  -- Abbe Brown; title: The new intermediation : contract, identity, and the future of internet governance  -- Andrea Matwyshyn; title: Network neutrality : a research guide  -- Christopher T. Marsden; title: Enhancing incentives for internet security -- Michel van Eeten and Johannes M. Bauer.