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