Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/214033 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Citation: 
[Journal:] Internet Policy Review [ISSN:] 2197-6775 [Volume:] 6 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society [Place:] Berlin [Year:] 2017 [Pages:] 1-17
Publisher: 
Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin
Abstract: 
This article explores bottom-up grassroots ordering in internet governance, investigating the efforts by a group of civil society actors to inscribe human rights in internet infrastructure, lobbying the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Adopting a Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspective, we approach this struggle as a site of contestation, and expose the sociotechnical imaginaries animating policy advocacy. Combining quantitative mailing-list analysis, participant observation and qualitative discourse analysis, the article observes civil society in action as it contributes to shape policy in the realm of institutional and infrastructure design.
Subjects: 
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
Civil society
Human rights
Sociotechnical imaginaries
Bottom-up design
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Document Type: 
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