Mikkel Flyverbom

Associate professor , Ph.D
Mikkel Flyverbom

Department of Intercultural Communication and Management

Porcelænshaven 18A
DK-2000 Frederiksberg

Tel.: +45 3815 3375
Fax:+45 3815 3840
E-mail: mfl.ikl@cbs.dk

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I am a communication scholar interested in questions of organization and governance. My current research focuses on how technology companies shape and are shaped by politics, policies and standards related to the Internet. In my recent book, The Power of Networks: Organizing the Global Politics of the Internet (Edward Elgar, 2011), I show how global Internet politics has emerged as a salient issue area around the UN, shaped in particular by ‘hybrid forums’ and ‘entangled authorities’.

I am currently at Stanford University as a visiting scholar, and doing empirical studies of how companies in the Internet industry contribute to the emergence of transparency and dialogue as organizational and regulatory norms. This research project will show how companies (such as Google and Facebook) and non-profit organizations (such as ICANN) share information, communicate with stakeholders and reflect on the values and challenges of openness and disclosure. The project has received a Google Research Award with Google's 'Chief Internet Evangelist' and Vice President, Vint Cerf, acting as liaison.

Theoretically and methodologically, I am broadly interested in organizational communication, sociology and governance, with a particular focus on practice-oriented, relational approaches, such as actor-network theory, governmentality studies and ethnography.

Awards:

FUHU Award for Teaching Excellence at Copenhagen Business School, 2011.

Google Research Award 2011

Primary research areas

Organizational communication
Global politics and governance
Transparency and organizational disclosure
Networks, governance and power
Globalization in organizations
Internet politics
Etnography and poststructuralist research strategies

Administrative functions

Vice-program director of Communication program HA/CM(kom)

Coordinator, undergraduate courses in Communication Theory and Organizational Communication, HA(kom)

Coordinator for the graduate course Globalization-Localization, at Cand.merc(kom)

Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Meetings, HA(kom)

Selected publications

Book

2011: The Power of Networks - Organizing the Global Politics of the Internet, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA

Journal articles

2010: ”Hybrid networks and the global politics of the digital revolution – a practice-based, relational, and agnostic approach”, in Global Networks – a Journal of Transnational Affairs, 10, 3, p. 424–442.

2008: ”Informationssamfundets globale styring – et bud på en analysestrategi”, Tidsskriftet Politik, no 4, vol 10, p. 86-96

2008: “The Internet Imaginaire”, anmeldelse i Science Studies- an Interdisciplinary Journal for Science and Technology Studies, 2, p. 100-102

2005: “Beyond the Black Box”, in Social Epistemology : A Journal of knowledge, culture and policy vol.19, no. 2-3, special issue titled Beyond social constructivism

2005: “Civilsamfundet mellem partnerskab og protest: Informations- og kommunikationsteknologi udsat for rundbordspolitik”, in Tidsskriftet Politik, vol. 8, no. 2, Copenhagen

Book chapters

2011: On/off the agenda: Intellectual property rights, the U.N. and the global politics of the internet, in Phillip Kalantzis Cope and Karim Gherab-Martin (eds): Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society: Properties of Technology, Palgrave-Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York

2009: “Teaching Culture and Communication from a Global Perspective' in Teaching Cultural Skills. Adding Culture in Higher Education edited by Zølner and Blasco, Nyt fra Samfundsvidenskaberne/Samfundslitteratur, København

2008: “Internet Regulation - Multi-Stakeholder Participation and Authority”, co-authored with Sven Bislev, in Hansen and Salskov-Iversen (eds.) Critical Perspectives on Private Authority, Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke

2008: “Transnational Private Governance of the Internet”, co-authored with Sven Bislev, in Graz and Nölke (eds.) Transnational Private Governance and its Limits, Routledge, London

2006: “Technological Imageries and Governance Arrangements: Global Networks in the Service of Development” co-authored with Hans Krause Hansen, in Hoff and Krause Hansen (eds.) Digital Governance://Networked Societies: Creating Authority, Community, and Identity in a Globalized World, Samfundslitteratur, Copenhagen.

Conference presentations and talks

2011: Transparency and dialogue as organizational norms in the online information access industry, Stanford University, October 9th

2011: Disentangling the Power-Transparency Nexus, co-authored with Lars Thøger Christensen and Hans Krause Hansen, paper presented at the 1st Global Conference on Transparency Research, Rutgers University, Newark, May 19-20, 2011

2011: Entangled Authority: Hybrid Forums and the Making of Stakeholders in Global Internet Politics, paper presented at International Studies Association annual convention, Montreal, March 16-19

2010: Entanglement and ordering, talk at the workshop Governing Markets (GOVEMARK), at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA October 21st

2010: “Power, dialogue and the global politics of the internet”, talk at School of International Service, American University, USA, October 22nd, 2010

2010: “Actor-Network Theory: Theory and Methods”, talk at workshop; ICOMM: Networks in Global Information and Communication Policy, held at International Studies Association's annual conference, New Orleans, Feb 16

In the news:

http://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/artikel/420819:Udland--Vesten-vil-have-mere-kontrol-med-internettet

http://www.cbs.dk/Micro/Insights-newsletter/Insights/The-Power-of-Networks-Organizing-the-Global-Politics-of-the-Internet

http://politiken.dk/debat/analyse/ECE804538/analyse-hvem-overtager-nu-styringen-af-nettet/

Last updated by Mikkel Flyverbom 05/01/2012