The Net and the Nation State: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Internet Governance
- United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- xvii, 302p.
This collection investigates the sharpening conflict between the nation state and the internet through a multidisciplinary lens. It challenges the idea of an inherently global internet by examining its increasing territorial fragmentation and, conversely, the notion that for states online law and order is business as usual. Differences in cultural, political and economic norms have incentivised virtual borders in the West; the nation state is asserting itself.
978-1-107-14294-7
1. Introduction: Internet Governance and the Resilience of the Nation State 2. The Universal Norm of Freedom of Expression- Towards an Unfragmented Internet 3. Which Limits on Freedom of Expression are Legitimate? Divergence of Free Speech Values in Europe and the United States 4. Nation Branding and Internet Governance: Framing Debates over Freedom and Sovereignty 5. Gtaekeeping Practices in the Chinese Social Media and the Legitimacy Challenge 6. Protecting Gamblers or Protecting Gambling? The Economic Dimension of Borderless Online"Speech" 7. Censorship and Cyberborders through EU Data Protection Law 8. Cyberborders through 'Code': An All-or-Nothing Affair? 9. Cyberborders and the Right to Travel in Cyberspace 10. Alternative Geographies of Cyberspace 11. Polycentrism and Democracy in Internet Governance 12. The End of Territory? The Re-Emergence of Community as a Principle of Jurisdictional order in the Internet Era 13. A Space(Partially) Apart? Religious Asylum and its Lessons for Online Governance 14. Geoinformation, Cartographic (Re)Presentation and the Nation State: A Co-Constitutive Relation and its Transformation in the Digital Age