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Internet Governance: The New Frontier of Global Institutions book cover

1st Edition

Internet Governance The New Frontier of Global Institutions

By John Mathiason Copyright 2009
200 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The expansion of the Internet has been called the most revolutionary development in the history of human communications. It is ubiquitous and is changing politics, economics and social relations. Its borderless nature affects the roles of individuals, the magic of the marketplace and the problems of government regulation. As its development has increased apace, contradictions have arisen between... Read more

Introduction  1. What is the Internet and what is governance?  2. Before the Internet: communications and its regulation through history  3. The non-state actors: engineers, entrepreneurs and netizens  4. Solving the domain name problem: Internet governance is born   5. Regulatory imperatives for Internet governance: downloading music, free speech, You-tube, porn, and crime and terrorism  6. The ICANN experiment  7. Multi-stakeholderism emerges from the World Summit on the Information Society  8. The IGF experiment begins  9. What does the frontier look like?

Biography

John Mathiason is Professor International Relations at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University. A former official of the United Nations Secretariat, he is the author of Invisible Governance: International Secretariats in Global Politics and many articles on global governance.

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