This collection investigates the sharpening conflict between the nation state and the internet through a multidisciplinary lens. It challenges the idea of an inherently global internet by examining its increasing territorial fragmentation and, conversely, the notion that for states online law and order is business as usual. Cyberborders based on national law are not just erected around China's online community. Cultural, political and economic forces, as reflected in national or regional norms, have also incentivised virtual borders in the West. The nation state is asserting itself. Yet, there are also signs of the receding role of the state in favour of corporations wielding influence through de-facto control over content and technology. This volume contributes to the online governance debate by joining ideas from law, politics and human geography to explore internet jurisdiction and its overlap with topics such as freedom of expression, free trade, democracy, identity and cartographic maps.
Author(s): Uta Kohl
Edition: 1
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2017
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 321
Tags: Telecommunication Policy; Internet Governance; Freedom Of Information
Cover
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Notes on contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 - Introduction: Internet Governance and the Resilience of the Nation State
Part I - Competing Narratives
2 - The Universal Norm of Freedom of Expression – Towards an Unfragmented Internet
3 - Which Limits on Freedom of Expression are Legitimate? Divergence of Free Speech Values in Europe and the United States
4 - Nation Branding and Internet Governance: Framing Debates over Freedom and Sovereignty
Part II - Solid and Porous Cyberborders
5 - Gatekeeping Practices in the Chinese Social Media and the Legitimacy Challenge
6 - Protecting Gamblers or Protecting Gambling? The Economic Dimension of Borderless Online ‘Speech’
7 - Censorship and Cyberborders through EU Data Protection Law
8 - Cyberborders through ‘Code’: An All-or-Nothing Affair?
9 - Cyberborders and the Right to Travel in Cyberspace
Part III - Unpacking Internet Jurisdiction
10 - Alternative Geographies of Cyberspace
11 - Polycentrism and Democracy in Internet Governance
12 - The End of Territory? The Re-Emergence of Community as a Principle of Jurisdictional Order in the Internet Era
13 - A Space (Partially) Apart? Religious Asylum and Its Lessons for Online Governance
14 - Geoinformation, Cartographic (Re)Presentation and the Nation State: A Co-Constitutive Relation and Its Transformation in the Digital Age
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Index
