Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/171970 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Citation: 
[Journal:] New media & society [ISSN:] 1461-7315 [Volume:] 19 [Issue:] 9 [Publisher:] Sage [Place:] Thousand Oaks, CA [Year:] 2017 [Pages:] 1406-1423
Publisher: 
Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA
Abstract: 
Following recent theoretical contributions, this article suggests a new approach to finding the governance in Internet governance. Studies on Internet governance rely on contradictory notions of governance. The common understanding of governance as some form of deliberate steering or regulation clashes with equally common definitions of Internet governance as distributed modes of ordering. Drawing on controversies in the broader field of governance and regulation studies, we propose to resolve this conceptual conundrum by grounding governance in mundane activities of coordination. We define governance as reflexive coordination – focusing on those ‘critical moments’, when routine activities become problematic and need to be revised, thus, when regular coordination itself requires coordination. Regulation, in turn, can be understood as targeted public or private interventions aiming to influence the behaviour of others. With this distinction between governance and regulation, we offer a conceptual framework for empirical studies of doing Internet governance.
Subjects: 
coordination
economics of convention
governance
ICANN
Internet Governance Forum
intentionality
Internet governance
ordering
reflexive coordination
regulation
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Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. / This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
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Article
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