This issue brings together a selection of articles presented in the Communication Policy and Technology section of the IAMCR conference in 2018.
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This paper explores how four approaches to cyber security are constructed, motivated and justified by different values such as privacy, economic order and national security and what this means for the actors involved.
This paper discusses resolution of the contested meanings of inclusiveness, accountability and transparency in trade policymaking.
Cyberspace governance struggles with three accountability challenges, the problem of many hands, the profusion of issue areas, as well as the hybridity and malleability of institutional arrangements. In order to address and mitigate these challenges, accountability relationships need to be consciously reframed and discursively constructed.
Do ICANN’s policies and operations have an impact on human rights? Civil society engagement in the organisation seeks to inscribe human rights in internet infrastructure.
This special issue calls to rethink how we conceptualise both internet and governance.
While intermediary liability is becoming an issue of increasing importance in internet governance discussions, little is being made at the institutional level to minimise conflicts across jurisdictions and ensure the compliance of intermediary liability laws with fundamental rights and the freedom to innovate.
One multi-stakeholder process is not like another, but how can we distinguish those that promote meaningful inclusion from those that don't?
Internet governance needs to develop ambitions
"The legal systems in both the United States and in the European Union member states are simply not cut out for citizen-driven, peer-to-peer communication," argues Swedish Pirate Party member Amelia Anderdotter.
Tough call: avoiding internet governance from becoming FIFA-like
Could ICANN become a FIFA-like organisation, “flush with cash and accountable to no one“?