The online version of Giganet’s 2024 Annual Symposium will be held in 2025! The event, which includes 12 papers on four panels, is on February 18 and 20. The full program is shown below. All times CET (UTC-1)

February 18. 2025 Join the session here:
Access the session here: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/83344311685

Introduction and welcome: 13:15 – 13:30

Panel 1: 13:30 – 15:00

Chair: Sophie Hoogenboom

Xiaojuan Grace Yang: A comparative study of China and EU’s digital sovereignty

Pilar Rodriguez Pita, Jorge Pérez Martínez, Alberto Urueña Lopez: “Digital Sovereignty and the Fractured Landscape of Internet Governance”

Francesca Musiani, Clément Perarnaud: “QUIC, or the battle that never was: a case of re-infrastructuring control over Internet traffic”

Discussant: Serhat Tutkal

Panel 2: 15:30 – 17:00

Chair: Sophie Hoogenboom

Discussant: Berna Akcali Gur

Hannah Ismael, Ziyaad Bhorat: Cascading Secrecy: Tensions between Transparency and Trade Secrecy

Claudiu Codreanu: Far from a consensus: Exploring the role of digital authoritarianism in hindering UN discussions on cyber norms

Dennis Redeker: Contested Governance of Speech Online: Global Perspectives on Actors in Social Media Content Moderation

February 20. 2025

Access the session here: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/85869183170

Panel 3: 8:00 – 9.30

Chair: Jamal Shahin

Yuchao Zhao: Technopreneurial coalition vs. state-sponsored dependency: A comparison of two scenarios of digital governance in local China

Liudmila Sivetc: The Evolution of Governance by Internet Infrastructure in Russia Before and After February 2022: New Generations of Controls and Their Effects on New-School Regulation Theory

Ana Lucia Taboada, Fabiana Alvarado: Towards a genuine governance of Internet? The case of the Quechua-speaking population in Peru

Discussant: Trisha Meyer

Panel 4: 10:00 – 11:30

Chair: Jamal Shahin

Moderator: Roxana Radu

Matthias Kettemann: Uploading Tuvalu: “The Internet Governance Dimension of Virtualizing Cultural Heritage in Times of Climate Change”

Riccardo Nanni: “The shrinking online space of civil society: withstanding social control by infrastructure in war zones. The Palestine case”

Mark W. Datysgeld, Jaqueline Trevisan Pigatto, Laura Gabrieli Pereira da Silva: “Reframing Internet Governance: The Struggle of Multistakeholderism in the Face of Multilateralism”

Closing session: 11:30 – 12:00