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New book
22. nov 2011
The Power of Networks - Organizing the Global Politics of the Internet
The internet has become a site of fierce political conflict involving states, technical groups, business and civil society. In a new book called "The Power of Networks - Organizing the Global Politics of the Internet" Mikkel Flyverbom captures how questions about the digital divide and the information revolution, dialogues with stakeholders, and networked forms of organization have become key features of the global politics of the Internet.
The Power of Networks - Organizing the Global Politics of the Internet
By Mikkel Flyverbom
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2011
By Mikkel Flyverbom
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2011
With an ever-growing number of users, the Internet is central to the processes of globalization, cultural formations, social encounters and economic development.
These aside, it is also fast becoming an important political domain.
Struggles over disclosure, access and regulation are only the most visible signs that the Internet is quickly becoming a site of fierce political conflict involving states, technical groups, business and civil society.
As the debate over the global politics of the Internet intensifies, this book will be a valuable guide for anyone seeking to understand the emergence, organization and shape of this new issue.
In this vivid study, Mikkel Flyverbom
captures how questions about the digital divide and the information revolution, dialogues with stakeholders, and networked forms of organization have become key features of the global politics of the Internet.
Tracing the making and stabilization of this transnational issue in and around the United Nations over almost a decade, this book demonstrates how multi-stakeholder networks make new political domains accessible and unsettle established ways of organizing transnational governance.
The Power of Networks offers a rich account of the practices and effects of organizing global politics and governance through dialogues and collaborations between governments, business and societies the world over.
Offering a novel analytical vocabulary for the study of ordering, governance and organization, this innovative ethnographic study of hybrid organizations and entangled forms of power in global politics shows how insights from actor-network theory and the Foucauldian governmentality literature can reinvigorate studies of transnational governance and organizational processes.
Ronald J. Deibert, University of Toronto, Canada, wrote about the book:
‘Mikkel Flyverbom’s The Power of Networks is a timely and important contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary study of cyberspace politics.
‘Mikkel Flyverbom’s The Power of Networks is a timely and important contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary study of cyberspace politics.
In an exceptionally well-written and researched book, Flyverbom employs a form of ethnographic method to uncover the grounded practices that inform the many “hybrid forums” and “entangled authorities” of Internet governance.
The book will be of interest to those who want a deeper understanding of the complexity and nuance of the many social forces shaping global cyberspace today.’
Mikkel Flyverbom
is an associate professor at the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management at CBS.
In 2011 he received the the FUHU Award for Teaching Excellence at Copenhagen Business School and the Google Research Award 2011 for the research project titled ‘Dialogue and transparency as organizational norms in the online information access industry’.
Sidst opdateret af Claus Rosenkrantz Hansen 23.11.2011