Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/155365 
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2016
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[Journal:] Internet Policy Review [ISSN:] 2197-6775 [Volume:] 5 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society [Place:] Berlin [Year:] 2016 [Pages:] 1-19
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Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin
Abstract: 
The paper combines actor-network theory and interpretative policy analysis to conceptualise multistakeholder arrangements in internet governance as production sites in which heterogeneous actors engage in dynamic processes of social ordering such as shared meaning-making and coalition building. The paper draws on existing research that traces processes of social ordering at the intersection of multistakeholder settings and intergovernmental institutions, and on theoretical considerations of multistakeholder mechanisms in internet governance. By focusing on processes of discursive production, the paper adds a new perspective to the existing body of literature on science and technology studies and internet governance, and provides illustrations based on deliberations of the Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation.
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Actor-Network Theory
Interpretative Policy Analysis
Hybrid space
Discourse
Black box
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This paper is part of "Doing internet governance: practices, controversies, infrastructures, and institutions", a Special issue of the Internet Policy Review edited by D. Epstein, C. Katzenbach and F. Musiani.
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