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Between coordination and regulation: finding the governance in Internet governance
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Abstract Following recent theoretical contributions, this article suggests a new approach to finding the governance in Internet governance. Studies on Internet governance rely on contradictory notions of governance. The common understanding of governance as some form of deliberate steering or regulation clas... view more
Following recent theoretical contributions, this article suggests a new approach to finding the governance in Internet governance. Studies on Internet governance rely on contradictory notions of governance. The common understanding of governance as some form of deliberate steering or regulation clashes with equally common definitions of Internet governance as distributed modes of ordering. Drawing on controversies in the broader field of governance and regulation studies, we propose to resolve this conceptual conundrum by grounding governance in mundane activities of coordination. We define governance as reflexive coordination – focusing on those ‘critical moments’, when routine activities become problematic and need to be revised, thus, when regular coordination itself requires coordination. Regulation, in turn, can be understood as targeted public or private interventions aiming to influence the behaviour of others. With this distinction between governance and regulation, we offer a conceptual framework for empirical studies of doing Internet governance.... view less
Keywords
Internet; governance; coordination; regulation
Classification
Interactive, electronic Media
Special areas of Departmental Policy
Free Keywords
ICANN; Internet Governance Forum; economics of convention; intentionality; ordering; reflexive coordination
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 1406-1423
Journal
New Media & Society, 19 (2017) 9
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/171970
ISSN
1461-7315
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
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