Net neutrality regulation and the participatory condition

Artikel

Across the globe, net neutrality policy consultations have sought the input of an engaged networked public by recursively mobilising the very technology of the internet itself as a kind of policy participation. This paper examines such cases, where regulators in the United States, Canada, India, and the European Union intended to more accurately represent public interest perspectives. However, as I argue, appeals to the participatory culture of the internet risk reifying participation itself while ignoring systemic inequalities that structure the concept of networked publics according to the exclusionary norms of internet discourse.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Internet Policy Review ; ISSN: 2197-6775 ; Volume: 8 ; Year: 2019 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 1-15 ; Berlin: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
• Subject: Participation ; Network neutrality ; Networked Publics ; Platforms ; Public interest

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Shepherd, Tamara
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
• (where): Berlin
• (when): 2019

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.14763/2019.2.1399
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/214072
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET