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ICA Pre-Conference: Agenda

Internet Governance and Communication beyond Boundaries

ICA Pre-Conference

24 May 2019

Hosted and sponsored by
The Internet Governance Lab at the American University

Co-sponsored by
ICA Communication and Technology Division
ICA Communication Law and Policy Division
Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet)

Malsi Doyle and Michael Forman Theater (MCK 201)
American University School of Communication
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC, USA
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Agenda

9:00 – 9:15am Introductions

  • Laura DeNardis, Faculty Director, the Internet Governance Lab and Professor, American University School of Communication
  • Dmitry Epstein, Chair, GigaNet and Assistant Professor of Communication and Public Policy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

9:15 – 10:30am Panel I: The Geopolitics of Internet Governance

Moderator: Samantha Bradshaw, DPhil, the Oxford Internet Institute.

  • Aynne Kokas, “The New Cybersovereigns: Power, control, and Internet governance between China and the United States.”
  • Renee Marlin-Bennett, “Flow Power and the Governance of Information Online.”
  • Aislinn McCann and Aaron Brantly, “A Healthy Internet: Modeling Internet Governance on the World Health Organization’s Successes and Failures.”
  • Susan Aaronson, “Data is a Development Issue.”

Conversation/Q&A

10:30 – 10:45am Coffee

10:45 – 11:00am Research Slam

Moderator: Kenneth Merrill, Associate Director, the Internet Governance Lab

  • Min Tang, “The Political Economy of the Huawei Indictment: Toward a reconceptualization of nation-states in Internet governance.”
  • Dmitry Kuznetsov, “ICANN’s ‘dot brand’ Communities: A critical discourse analysis of the new gTLD programme’s construction of DNS-appropriate communities.”
  • Wenting Yu, Chris Fei Shen, and Chen Min, “Governance of Social Media Data: Different focuses between government and Internet companies.”
  • Ilona Stadnik, “Internet Fragmentation or Internet Alignment: The case of Russia and ‘sovereign’ RUnet.”
  • Junbin Su, “Opening the Black-Box of News Recommendation Algorithms: Gatekeeping and its ethical concerns.”

Conversation/Q&A

11:00 – 12:15pm Panel II: Critical Infrastructures Unbounded (Derrick)

Moderator: Derrick Cogburn, Co-Director, the Internet Governance Lab and Professor, American University School of International Service

  • Milton Mueller and Brenden Kuerbis, “Is There One Internet, or Two? The Competition Between IPv6 and IPv4 and its Implications for Internet Governance.”
  • Undrah Baasasnjav, “Stability and Security of International Domain Names.”
  • Corinne Cath, “The Technology We Choose to Create: Human Rights Advocacy and Anthropology in Internet Governance.”
  • Farzaneh Badiei and Patricia Vargas, “A Jurisprudential Approach to Governments and Other Actors Attempts to Control the Internet Root Zone.”

Conversation/Q&A

12:15 – 1:15pm Lunch & Poster Session

School of International Service, Founders Room

1:15 – 2:30pm Panel III: Human Rights

Moderator: Eric Novotny, Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer, American University School of International Service and Faculty Fellow, the Internet Governance Lab

  • Ksenia Ermoshina, Benjamin Loveluck and Francesca Musiani, “A market of black boxes: The Russian Internet industry of censorship and surveillance.”
  • Aras Coskuntuncel, “The Privatization of Internet Governance as an Information Control Strategy in Turkey.”
  • Emma Briant, “The Case of Cambridge Analytica: Governing Beyond Borders for a Global Digital Influence Industry.”
  • Andrew Rens and Bryan Bello, “Don’t Think of Intelligence! The role of technological frames in regulating AI and the implications for the social production of knowledge.”

Conversation/Q&A

2:30 – 2:45pm Coffee

2:45 – 4:00pm Panel IV: Boundaries of Internet Governance

Moderator: Dmitry Epstein, Chair, GigaNet and Assistant Professor of Communication & Public Policy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  • Anna Loup and Dustin Phillips, “When Multi-Scalar Meets Intersectional Analysis: New ways of doing Internet access, infrastructure, and governance research, a case study of California’s Central Valley”
  • Maggie Clifford, Patricia Aufderheide and Aram Sinnreich, “Access Shrugged: Declining Engagement with Open-Source and Open-Access Approaches.”
  • Efrat Daskal, “Broadening the boundaries of the field: Personal Internet Governance?”
  • Martha Fuentes-Bautista, Becky Lentz and Rafael Zanatta, “Assessing Engaged Learning on Data Protection: Towards a Social Justice Perspective on Internet Governance Pedagogy”

Conversation/Q&A

4:00 – 4:30pm Concluding Remarks

Call for Papers: 2019 Annual GigaNet Symposium (Berlin, Germany)

Call for Papers

GigaNet 2019 Symposium

October 15: full papers due
November 25:  GigaNet 2019 Symposium, Berlin

GigaNet – the Global Internet Governance Academic Network – is now accepting extended abstracts for papers to be presented at its annual symposium. GigaNet 2019 will be held alongside the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Berlin.  We expect our symposium to be held on “Day 0” of the IGF, which is Monday, November 25.

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 http://www.giga-net.org.

Papers on any Internet governance-related topic are solicited. Welcome topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Norm development by states and/or non-state actors
  • Cross-regional dynamics (East-West, South-South, East-South, South-West, etc.)
  • Governance of/by content, e.g. narratives, disclosures, censorship
  • Sovereignty (internal, external) and commons-based governance
  • Cybersecurity and cyber conflict among states
  • Governance within new top-level domains
  • Technical standards as norms
  • Theories of and methods applicable to Internet governance research
  • Multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approaches

GigaNet is oriented around the presentation of research papers.  Extended abstract should consist of 800-1500 words and must describe:

  1. The research question(s),
  2. The data used,
  3. The methodology and
  4. The main 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. Therefore, 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, which will record their names and contact data, and the program committee chair will be able to see that information.)

GigaNet encourages emerging scholars to submit their work to the symposium. Proposals should be submitted in English.

For submission, the extended abstract must be uploaded to the Easychair website (URL above) by 22 June 2019.

Important dates:

  • June 22: Extended abstracts submission
  • August 18: notification to authors of acceptances/rejections
  • August 23: accepted authors confirm attendance
  • October 15: full papers due
  • November 25:  GigaNet 2019 Symposium, Berlin (subject to change when UN allocates facilities at IGF)

Participation in the GigaNet symposium is free of charge.

GIG-ARTS 2019 – 16-17 May, Salerno

Europe as a Global Player in Internet Governance

The Third European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies

Organised by The Internet & Communication Policy Centre, Department of Political, Social and Communication Sciences, and Università degli Studi di Salerno

Co-Sponsored by the Centre for European Policy Studies, the ECPR Standing Group on Internet and Politics, the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet), the IAMCR Communication Policy and Technology Section, the ICA Communication Law and Policy Division

READ MORE ABOUT GIG-ARTS

Contact

Email: events@gig-arts.eu
Twitter: @GigArtsEU

#GigARTS19

Preliminary Programme

Day 1 – Thursday 16 May 2019

08:30-09:00 – Registration

09:00-09:30 – Welcome Session

Francesco Amoretti & Mauro Santaniello – GIG-ARTS 2019 General Chairs
Aurelio Tommasetti – Chancellor of the University of Salerno
Gennaro Iorio – Head of Department of Political and Social Studies
Virgilio D’Antonio – Head of Department of Political and Communication Sciences

09:30-11:00 – Session 1 – Europe as a Global Normative Power

ChairMeryem Marzouki (CNRS & Sorbonne Université, France)
DiscussantClaudia Padovani (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)

  • Exporting Rule of Law on the Internet: Europe’s Potential as a Norm Entrepreneur in Global Internet Governance Matthias Kettemann (Hans-Bredow-Institute, Germany), Wolfgang Kleinwächter (Aarhus University, Germany) and Max Senges (Stanford University and Google Germany)
  • Normative cyber power Europe? Assessing value-orientation in European cybersecurity governance Wolf J. Schünemann and Stefan Steiger (Hildesheim University, Germany)
  • The Role of ‘Europe’ in the Invention of Global Media Governance Anthony Löwstedt (Webster Vienna Private University, Austria)
  • European Perspectives on Legitimacy in ICANN Hortense Jongen and Jan Aart Scholte (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

11:00-11:30 – Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 – Session 2 – The Manufacture of EU Law and Policies

ChairVirgilio D’Antonio (University of Salerno, Italy)
DiscussantJamal Shahin (VUB, Belgium & University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

  • When EU governments legislate on the future of the Internet: comparative study of the preferences and bargaining satisfaction of member states in the Council of the EU Clément Perarnaud (University Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
  • The role of experts groups and epistemic communities in EU Internet-related policy-making: an exploratory inquiry Nicola Palladino (University of Salerno, Italy)
  • Power to the people? Evaluating citizen participation in EU online copyright policy Agnieszka Vetulani Cęgiel (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland) and Trisha Meyer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
  • Network Neutrality in the European Union – A Policy Process Analysis Stefan Gadringer (University of Salzburg, Austria)

13:00-14:30 – Lunch Break

14:30-15:30 – Roundtable: Towards a Turn to Regulation in the European Internet Governance?

ModeratorMauro Santaniello (University of Salerno)
Discussion with representatives of public authorities (and/or practitioners, TBC)

15:30-16:00 – Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 – Session 3 – European Cybersecurity Strategies and Perspectives

ChairJan Aart Scholte (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
DiscussantsWilliam J. Drake (University of Zurich, Switzerland) and Lorenzo Pupillo (Centre for European Policy Studies, Belgium)

  • Cyber Security and the constitutive Role of Security Cultures: A Framework of Global Cyber Security Cultures Madeleine Myatt (University of Bielefeld, Germany) and Domenico Fracchiolla (LUISS University, Italy)
  • EU Cyber Diplomacy: the EU as an emerging global Cybersecurity actor Andrea Calderaro (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)
  • Grappling with Multilevel Governance & Global Idea Flow: The European Union & The Internet Governance Forum’s Best Practice Forum on Cyber-security Nanette Levinson (American University, United States of America)
  • Networks of Cooperation and Trust: An analysis of Incident Response in the EU
  • Louise Marie Hurel (Igarapé Institute, United Kingdom)

17:30-18:00 – Transfer to Salerno city

19:00-20:00 – Keynote Speech @ Palazzo Fruscione (location TBC) – Digital Platform

20:00-22:00 – Social event @ Palazzo Fruscione (location TBC) – Policy: Is EU policy leadership tackling platform power?

SpeakerRobin Mansell (London School of Economics, United Kingdom) 
ChairFrancesco Amoretti (University of Salerno, Italy)

Day 2 – Friday 17 May 2019

09:30-11:00 – Session 4 – The Political Economy of Internet Governance in Europe

ChairMichèle Rioux (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
DiscussantsTeresa Numerico (Università di Roma 3, Italy) and Adriano Cozzolino (Università L’Orientale, Italy)

  • Regulating the European Data-Driven Economy: A Case Study on the General Data Protection Regulation Moritz Laurer (CARSA – Innovation and Technology Consultancy, Germany) and Timo Seidl (European University Institute, Italy)
  • Governing Mobile Internet Communication: The EU, Private Technical Standards Making and the Pursuit of Co-Existence in Unlicensed Spectrum Seamus Simpson (University of Salford, United Kingdom) and Imir Rashid (University of Exeter, United Kingdom)
  • The Digital Single Market and the commodification of cultural policy. The case of the European copyright reform (2014-2018) Céleste Bonnamy (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium & Université Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne, France)
  • Governing political platforms, a case on the French Digital Council and a start-up
  • Maud Bernisson (Karlstad University, Sweden)

11:00-11:30 – Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 – Session 5 – European Democatic Values and Sovereignty

ChairYves Schemeil (Sciences Po Grenoble, France)
DiscussantsNicola Palladino (University of Salerno) and Domenico Fracchiolla (LUISS University, Italy)

  • Going Back and Forth: Re-Nationalization of Internet Governance or Further European Push for Internationalization? Rolf H. Weber (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
  • The Power of Networks: Institutionalization and Mobilization in European and Transnational Digital Constitutionalism Dennis Redeker (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany)
  • Populism and EU policy: the battleground of copyright Giuseppe Micciarelli (University of Salerno, Italy) and Maria Francesca De Tullio (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
  • ODR and European courts. risks and opportunities in terms of equal access to justice and due process of law
  • Letizia Mingardo (University of Padova, Italy)

13:00-14:30 – Lunch Break

14:30-16:00 – Session 6 – Data Protection, Privacy and Security in Comparative Perspectives

ChairNanette S. Levinson (American University Washington DC, USA)
DiscussantsAndrea Calderaro (Cardiff University, United Kingdom) and Giuseppe Micciarelli (University of Salerno, Italy)

  • The Russian Cybersecurity Strategy in Comparative Perspective Mara Morini (University of Genoa, Italy)
  • Mapping the Right to be Forgotten in the territory of Freedom of Expression. A review of International and Domestic Case law Ana Azurmendi (University of Navarra, Spain)
  • The Common Goods of Privacy and Data Governance Anke Obendiek, (Hertie School of Governance, Germany)
  • Europe’s global blockchain leadership: strategies and conceptual framework
  • Marco Crepaldi (University of Turin, Italy)

16:00-16:30 – Concluding Remarks

Call for Papers: ICA Pre-Conference (Washington, DC, USA)

Internet Governance and Communication beyond Boundaries

ICA Pre-Conference

24 May 2019

Washington, DC, USA

Hosted and sponsored by the Internet Governance Lab at the American University.

Co-sponsored by ICA Communication and Technology Division, ICA Communication Law and Policy Division, and the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet).

Extended abstract due: 11 February 2019
Full papers due: 25 April 2019

SUBMIT HERE

Internet Governance and Communication beyond Boundaries

Contemporary questions about the information society are inseparable from questions of governance of the underlying infrastructures, the logic of information flows, and its uses at the edges. The scope of questions under the general umbrella of internet governance is thus extremely broad, but at the same time vaguely defined. In the spirit of this year’s ICA conference theme, this event will discuss the issue of boundaries in internet governance both as a substantive topic of research and as a reflexive exercise for internet governance as a research domain.

Substantively, within internet governance, boundaries have been traditionally an important area of research starting with question of sovereignty and jurisdiction in cyberspace, reaching to the exploration of boundaries of the technical, legal, social, and political decision-making with constitutive effects on the internet. As a field of study, internet governance has been debating its disciplinary boundaries as well as the scope of research questions that can come under this broad label.

To facilitate this debate, we are inviting proposals that cover a broad scope of topics relating to internet governance and communication, including, but not limited to, topics such as:

  • Power structures in internet governance, their sustainability and change;
  • Nationalization of internet governance and possible threats of internet fragmentation;
  • Privatization of internet governance and its impact on individual freedoms and human rights;
  • Technical, legal and policy initiatives for cybersecurity and their impact on global internet governance;
  • Emerging forms of governance such as trade agreements or user-driven change;
  • Technological disruption and emerging governance questions in areas such as artificial intelligence and human augmentics;
  • The respective powers of the users, technology designers and regulators in distributed systems;
  • Public awareness of internet governance and communication of internet policy;
  • Visions and metaphors of information technology in internet policy discourse;

We are particularly interested in proposals that offer a reflection on Internet Governance as a field of research. Those may address, but again, are not limited to, the following topics:

  • How does one research Internet Governance? 
  • Epistemological and practical challenges of Internet Governance research;
  • The (multi)disciplinary, topical, and epistemological boundaries of Internet Governance research;
  • Exploration of the boundary between research and activism in Internet Governance.

The pre-conference is organized by the Internet Governance Lab at the American University and the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet). It is co-sponsored by the ICA Communication Law and Policy and Communication and Technology divisions, but it touches upon the fields of many more ICA divisions and interest groups. We aim to bring together ICA participants interested in questions of governance, GigaNet members from other disciplines, and the Washington, DC community of practitioners and policymakers. Our goal is to have a mutual learning process and exchange of ideas and challenges for the further development of Internet Governance research. For further inquiries, please contact Kenneth Merrill (kmerrill@american.edu) or Dmitry Epstein (dima.e@mail.huji.ac.il).

Submission details

At this time we invite authors to submit extended abstracts (800-1000 words) that describe the main thesis, research goals, and to the extent possible, the methodological background and findings of their paper. All extended abstracts must be uploaded through EasyChair by 11 February 2019, with all identifying information removed. All contributions will be peer-reviewed.

UPLOAD YOUR EXTENDED ABSTRACT HERE

Authors of the accepted abstracts will be asked to submit a full original manuscript of approximately 4000 to 8000 words, which have not been published elsewhere, by 25 April 2019. Based on the volume and the quality of submissions we intend to explore a potential thematic publication of pre-conference materials.

2018 Annual Symposium Programme (Paris, France)

Not the ‘New Oil’: Data Governance and the Internet

13th GigaNet Annual Symposium

15 November 2018

Paris, France

Register now

The 13th GigaNet Annual Symposium will take place on Thursday, November 15, 2018, in Paris, France, following the 13th annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF).

The symposium will be held at Sorbonne Université. Address: LIP6 Laboratory, Tower 26, Room 25-26/105 Sorbonne Université, Jussieu Campus, 4 Place Jussieu Paris, 75005 Paris. Attendees will need to show bags or luggage at campus entrance, as security measures still apply. See maps of Jussieu campus and neighbourhood indicating symposium location.

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE

8:30 – 9:00          REGISTRATION AND WELCOME

9:00 – 11:00         DIGITAL CONSTITUTIONALISM

  • Moderator: Meryem Marzouki
  • Neena Pandey and Rahul De’, “Legitimacy Perception of Internet Governance Form: An Inter-Country Analysis”
  • Dennis Redeker, “Exploring the Bottom-Up Digital Constitutionalism of the ‘Feminist Principles of the Internet’”
  • Nicola Palladino and Mauro Santaniello, “Setting the ‘Internet global multistakeholder community’. An empirical analysis of the IANA transition”
  • Anke Obendiek, “Protecting Whose Norms? Authority Struggles in Data Governance”

11:00-11:15         BREAK

11:15 – 12:45       TECHNICAL GOVERNANCE

  • Moderator: Hans Klein
  • Guillaume Sire, “Semantic infrastructures and the privatization of meaning”
  • Nathalie Marechal, “Accountability for Targeted Advertising: Bringing Transparency to the Practice of Surveillance Capitalism”
    (Replaces Corinne Cath, “Changing Hearts and Machines: Human Rights in the Internet Engineering Task Force” who unfortunately cannot attend)
  • Francesca Musiani, Alexandre Mallard and Cécile Méadel, “Governing What Wasn’t Meant To Be Governed: A Controversy-Based Approach to the Study of Bitcoin Governance”

12:45 – 14:15       LUNCH

14:15 – 16:15       CYBERSECURITY AND SOVEREIGNTY

  • Moderator: Derrick Cogburn
  • Liudmila Sivetc, “Let’s Control Copies Instead of Originals! New Way of Controlling National Internet”
  • Radomir Bolgov and Ruben Elamiryan, “Comparing cybersecurity in NATO and CSTO: Legal and political aspects”
  • Domenico Fracchiolla and Francesco Amoretti, “The Cyber Security Policy of the USA under the Obama Administration”
  • Martina Ferracane, “Data Flows & National Security: A conceptual framework to assess restrictions on data flows under GATS security exception”

16:15-16:30         BREAK

16:30 – 18:00      TRANSNATIONAL PRIVATE REGULATION

  • Moderator: Adam Peake
  • Rotem Medzini, “From national to transnational private regulation of/by European data protection officers as regulatory intermediaries”
  • Jennifer Shkabatur, “The Global Commons of Data”
  • Tobias Mahler, “‘ICANN Shall not Regulate’: A Critical Analysis of ICANN’s Post-Transition Regulatory Powers”

18:00 – 18:30       GIGANET BUSINESS MEETING