Artikel

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 (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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: Internet Policy Review ; ISSN: 2197-6775 ; Volume: 6 ; Year: 2017 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 1-17 ; Berlin: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

Classification
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Subject
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
Civil society
Human rights
Sociotechnical imaginaries
Bottom-up design

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Milan, Stefania
ten Oever, Niels
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
(where)
Berlin
(when)
2017

DOI
doi:10.14763/2017.1.442
Handle
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Object type

  • Artikel

Associated

  • Milan, Stefania
  • ten Oever, Niels
  • Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

Time of origin

  • 2017

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