You are invited to GigaNet’s 2022 workshop about Internet Standard-Setting Research Methods on 12 January 2022, from 12:00 to 17:30 UTC. Website here.

This workshop will showcase the broad range of research methods used by Internet governance scholars from multiple disciplines to study Internet standard-setting bodies, such as the IETF, IEEE, W3C, WHATWG, 3GPP, ITU-T, ITU-R. The workshop is also open to the study of “de-facto standardisation” that takes place outside of formal organisations and processes (Musiani and Ermoshina, 2019).

The workshop aims to provide an opportunity for scholars and researchers to:

Explore and perhaps discover qualitative and quantitative methods applicable to standard setting for information networks;
Share open research questions and work-in-progress on methods;
Discuss the feasibility of applying specific methods;
Improve the understanding of specific methods;
Receive feedback to improve the methodological approaches;
Identify new and existing data sources; and
Outline novel topics of interest arising from these various methods for the general study of standardisation and Internet governance broadly construed.

The workshop will focus on the following methods for studying standardisation:

Network analysis;
Computational methods;
Discourse analysis;
Ethnography;
Mixed Methods.

Additionally, we will also consider what lessons can be drawn from studying non-Internet standard-setting bodies and how researchers can acquire the relevant data for their research (including but not limited to standards, patents, conversations, and other standardisation documents and resources).

The workshop will include brief presentations of the authors and group discussion delving into their methods (and findings) and we are excited to have Professor Jorge L. Contreras as a keynote speaker.

We will share the full program in due course. In the meantime, you can email us with questions at: intgovworkshop@protonmail.com and encourage you to share the workshop with your networks.

Reference

Ermoshina, Ksenia, and Francesca Musiani. “‘Standardising by Running Code’: The Signal Protocol and de Facto Standardisation in End-to-End Encrypted Messaging.” Internet Histories 3, no. 3–4 (October 2, 2019): 343–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2019.1654697

Full program

7:00 EST / 12:00 UTC / 13:00 CET
Opening Corinne Cath and Niels ten Oever

7:15 – 8:15 EST / 12:15 – 13:15 UTC
Qualitative SDO analysis
Panelists: Jorge Contreras, Riccardo Nanni, Julien Rossi, Ashwin Mathew, Zuno Verghese
Chair: Corinne Cath
Discussant: Niels ten Oever

8:15 – 8:30 EST / 13:15 – 13:30 UTC
Break

8:30 – 9:30 EST / 13:30 – 14:30 UTC
Quantitative SDO analysis
Panlelists: Justus Baron, Christoph Becker, Olia Kanevskaia, Nick Doty, Brad Biddle, Margaret Ng Chair: Riccardo Nanni
Discussant: Julien Rossi

9:30 – 10:00 EST / 14:30 – 15:00 UTC / 15:30 – 16:00 CET
Keynote by Jorge Contreras
Chair: Farzaneh Badii

10:00 – 10:30 EST / 15:00 – 15:30 UTC
Break

10:30 – 11:30 EST / 15:30 – 16:30 UTC
Internet Governance analysis
Panelists: Albert Garrich Alabarce, Alison Gillwald, Freya Vandenboom, Kapil Goyal
Chair: Julien Rossi
Discussant: Farzaneh Badii

11:30 – 12:00 EST / 16:30 – 17:00 UTC / 17:30 – 18:00 CET
Closing remarks by Farzaneh Badii

Addition details here.

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14th July 2021 – Launch of Telecommunications Policy Special Issue – “Norm Entrepreneurship in Internet Governance”

Presenting the Special Issue Vol. 45/6 of Telecommunications Policy

Norm Entrepreneurship In Internet Governance

Edited by: Roxana Radu, Matthias C. Kettemann, Trisha Meyer and Jamal Shahin.

Date • Wed, 14 July, 14.00-15.30 (CEST) • via Zoom

Registration • http://bit.ly/RegisterNormfare

Special issue • Telecommunications Policy

Featuring presentations from the authors of the special issue

Roxana Radu, Matthias C. Kettemann, Trisha Meyer, Jamal Shahin

Normfare: Norm entrepreneurship in internet governance

Nanette S. Levinson

Idea entrepreneurs: The United Nations Open-Ended Working Group & cybersecurity

Corinne Cath

The technology we choose to create: Human rights advocacy in the Internet Engineering Task Force

Julien Rossi

What rules the Internet? A study of the troubled relation between Web standards and legal instruments in the field of privacy

Robert Gorwa

Elections, institutions, and the regulatory politics of platform governance: The case of the German NetzDG

Nicola Palladino

The role of epistemic communities in the “constitutionalization” of internet governance: The example of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence

Chelsea L. Horne

Internet governance in the “post-truth era”: Analyzing key topics in “fake news” discussions at IGF

Nadia Tjahja, Trisha Meyer, Jamal Shahin

What is civil society and who represents civil society at the IGF? An analysis of civil society typologies in internet governance

Riccardo Nanni

The ‘China’ question in mobile Internet standard-making: Insights from expert interviews

Blayne Haggart and Clara Iglesias Keller

Democratic legitimacy in global platform governance

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Join the GigaNet steering committee for a workshop about submitting your work to the GigaNet Annual Symposium

Doubts about submitting your work to the GigaNet Annual Symposium? We’re here to answer your questions!

Date/time: 4 June, 13.00-14.00 CET via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/93155737701

Do you research internet governance? Do you work on tech policy? Want to find out how to get your proposal submitted to the world’s leading academic network of internet governance scholars?

Join the GigaNet steering committee for a workshop about submitting your work to the GigaNet Annual Symposium to be held at the Internet Governance Forum in December. We’re here to answer your questions!

This workshop is targeted and anyone who has considered submitting their work to the GigaNet Annual Symposium, but hesitated as well as to practitioners who want to turn a scholarly lens on their work. Learn how to write a strong abstract that fits the conference requirements, get some practical advice and insights, and find out more about the selection process!

We invite emerging scholars, new academics, and practitioners who want to make sure that their important policy work meets the academic criteria of the GigaNet Symposium to join us for an open discussion on 4 June, 13.00-14.00 CET!

GigaNet encourages emerging scholars, researchers and practitioners working with diverse methodologies to submit an abstract of their work for consideration by 10 June 2021: https://www.giga-net.org/cfp-giganet-annual-symposium-2021/

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2020 Annual Symposium Call for Papers (Katowice, Poland)

Call for Papers

GigaNet 2020 Symposium

2 November (Katowice, Poland)

GigaNet – the Global Internet Governance Academic Network – is now accepting extended abstracts for papers to be presented at its annual symposium. As of now, GigaNet 2020 is planned to be held alongside the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Katowice, Poland. We expect our symposium to take place on “Day 0” of the IGF, which is Monday, 2 November.

Papers on any Internet/data governance-related topic are welcome. Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. There will be the possibility of a focused subset of accepted papers to be fast-tracked for publication in a relevant journal. Welcome topics include, but are not limited to:

The evolution of Internet governance / institutions / norms

• Governance of standards, content, practices, including governance of/by online platforms

• Public/private governance dynamics in Internet policy/technical areas

• Cybersecurity policy and governance

• Digital security and privacy negotiation

• Cryptocurrencies and relations with the Internet infrastructure

• Cross-regional cooperation and initiatives

• Mobilization and social structure(s) in the digital age

• Norm development by states and/or non-state actors

Future-oriented Internet research agenda

• Emerging topics in Internet governance (e.g. public health, emergency preparedness)

• Data governance

• Interdisciplinary perspectives on the governance of new technologies (Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, virtual currencies)

Internet Governance as a field of study

• Narratives, myths and frictions in the construction of the Internet governance field

• Theoretical innovations

• Institutional morphologies and (inter)disciplinary typologies

• Theories and methods applicable to Internet governance research

GigaNet is oriented around the presentation of research papers. The proposed extended abstract should be 800-1500 words long and must describe:

1. Research question(s),

2. Data used,

3. Methodology, and

4. Main (expected) findings of the paper.

Theoretical papers need not specify the data used but must have a clear research question and statement of the specific theories used and literature in which the analysis is situated.

Reviews of individual papers will be double blind. Please do not include names or any other personally identifiable information on the uploaded file. (Be aware, however, that applicants will submit through the Easychair platform. This records their names and contact information: the program committee chair will be able to see that information.)

*We are monitoring closely the evolving COVID-19 situation and hope that the physical meeting in Katowice can go ahead as planned. Should that change due to a prolongation of the pandemic restrictions, we will make arrangements to move the symposium online*

GigaNet encourages emerging scholars to submit their work to the symposium. Proposals should be submitted in English. Participation in the GigaNet symposium is free of charge.

For submission, the extended abstract must be uploaded to the Easychair website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=giganet2020) by 22 May 2020.

Important dates:

• NEW Extended abstracts submission: 22 May

• Notification to authors of acceptances/rejections: 15 June

• Accepted authors confirm attendance: 10 July

• Full papers due: 15 September

• GigaNet Symposium: 2 November

GigaNet is an international association of academic researchers founded in 2006 to support multidisciplinary research on Internet governance. Its membership includes researchers from all over the world who are contributing to local, national, regional, and international debates on Internet governance. More information on GigaNet’s organizational structures and activities can be found on its website at https://www.giga-net.org.