[Air-L] New Book: "The Turn to Infrastructure in Internet Governance"

[Francesca Musiani]

Dear AoIR community,

Derrick Cogburn, Laura DeNardis, Nanette Levinson and I have the pleasure
to announce tle publication of our co-edited book "The Turn to
Infrastructure in Internet Governance". The book is available in hardcover
and will soon be available as an eBook, on the Palgrave website and on
other sellers' websites.

http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137533265

It includes contributions by several GigaNet members including Matthew
Schruers, Primavera De Filippi, Danièle Bourcier, Meryem Marzouki, Nicolas
Arpagian, John Laprise, Patricia Vargas-Leon, Kenneth Merrill and Tatevik
Sargsyan, and the four of us. The pre-print version of the introductory
chapter by Laura DeNardis and I will soon be available on SSRN. Here is a
short presentation of the book:

This edited volume brings together experts from around the world to provide
coverage and analysis of infrastructure's role in Internet governance, both
now and in the future. Never in history have conflicts over Internet
governance attracted such widespread attention. High-profile controversies
include the disclosures about NSA surveillance by intelligence analyst
Edward Snowden, controversy over a decision by the US government to
relinquish its historic oversight of Internet names and numbers, and
countless cybersecurity breaches involving unauthorized access to Internet
users' personal data. Much of the Internet governance ecosystem—both
technical architecture and coordinating institutions—is behind the scenes
but increasingly carries significant public interest implications. An area
once concealed in institutional and technological complexity is now rightly
bracketed among other shared global issues —such as environmental
protection and human rights—that have considerable global implications but
are simply incongruous with national borders. This transformation into an
era of global governance by Internet infrastructure presents a moment of
opportunity for scholars to bring these politicized infrastructures to the
foreground.

Kind regards
Francesca, Derrick, Laura and Nanette



-- 
Francesca Musiani (ph.d.)


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