- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Inventing the Internet: Scapegoat, Sin Eater, and Trickster
- 2 Next Generation Internet Users
- 3 The Relational Self-Portrait
- 4 The Politics of Children’s Internet Use
- 5 Gender and Race Online
- 6 Internet Geographies
- 7 China and the US in the New Internet World
- 8 Social Media and the News
- 9 The Impact of the Internet on Media Industries
- 10 Big Data
- 11 Transforming Government—by Default?
- 12 The Wisdom of Which Crowd? On the Pathology of a Digital Democracy Initiative for a Listening Government
- 13 Online Social Networks and Bottom-up Politics
- 14 Big Data and Collective Action
- 15 Empowering Citizens of the Internet Age
- 16 Scarcity of Attention for a Medium of Abundance
- 17 The Internet in the Law
- 18 The Digital Divide and Employment
- 19 A Critical Perspective on the Potential of the Internet at the Margins of the Global Economy
- 20 Next-Generation Content for Next-Generation Networks
- 21 Data Privacy in the Clouds
- 22 The Social Media Challenge to Internet Governance
- 23 Beyond the Internet and Web
- Index
The Social Media Challenge to Internet Governance
The Social Media Challenge to Internet Governance
- Chapter:
- (p.348) 22 The Social Media Challenge to Internet Governance
- Source:
- Society and the Internet
- Author(s):
Laura DeNardis
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Much discussion of Internet governance focuses on global forums and debates over policy and practice. This chapter argues that the study of Internet governance needs to focus more on how governance is being shaped away from the international forums, as it is embedded in technical and business decisions about the Internet and related applications. Focusing the discussion on social media, the chapter argues that the future of civil liberties, such as freedom of expression and privacy, and technical openness are being decided out of the public’s gaze. Technical and business decisions are having long-range social implications that the policy community and larger public do not see, and are therefore unable to hold those developing these policies to account. The future of anonymity, for example, will have major implications for freedom of expression, but is being winnowed away through technical decisions about the Internet’s underlying infrastructure.
Keywords: governance, Internet governance, civil liberties, freedom of expression, social media
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Inventing the Internet: Scapegoat, Sin Eater, and Trickster
- 2 Next Generation Internet Users
- 3 The Relational Self-Portrait
- 4 The Politics of Children’s Internet Use
- 5 Gender and Race Online
- 6 Internet Geographies
- 7 China and the US in the New Internet World
- 8 Social Media and the News
- 9 The Impact of the Internet on Media Industries
- 10 Big Data
- 11 Transforming Government—by Default?
- 12 The Wisdom of Which Crowd? On the Pathology of a Digital Democracy Initiative for a Listening Government
- 13 Online Social Networks and Bottom-up Politics
- 14 Big Data and Collective Action
- 15 Empowering Citizens of the Internet Age
- 16 Scarcity of Attention for a Medium of Abundance
- 17 The Internet in the Law
- 18 The Digital Divide and Employment
- 19 A Critical Perspective on the Potential of the Internet at the Margins of the Global Economy
- 20 Next-Generation Content for Next-Generation Networks
- 21 Data Privacy in the Clouds
- 22 The Social Media Challenge to Internet Governance
- 23 Beyond the Internet and Web
- Index
