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Mireille Delmas-Marty

Foreword. The Internet: disrupting, revealing and producing rules

• THE INTERNET AND LEGAL SYSTEMS
• ORDER AND PLURALISM IN THE AGE OF GLOBALISATION
• TRANSFORMATION PROCESS SYNERGIES VERSUS THE “TRAGEDY OF THE THREE C’s”
• THE NEED FOR CONTROL, A CATALYST FOR DESIGNING A NEW KIND OF GOVERNANCE
• CONCLUSION

Françoise Massit-Folléa, Cécile Méadel et Laurence Monnoyer-Smith

Introduction. From Internet Governance to Internet Politics

• WHAT TYPE OF NORMATIVITY FOR THE INTERNET? A RESEARCH QUESTION
• FROM ONE NORMATIVITY TO ANOTHER
• CONFLICTING NORMATIVE MODELS
• NEW INSTITUTIONAL FORMS IN INTERNET GOVERNANCE
• HOW TO MANAGE COMMON DIGITAL GOODS?
• THE REGULATION OF ONLINE COMMUNITIES
• INTERNET ARCHITECTURE AND TECHNOLOGIES
• CHAPTERS PRESENTATION

Paul Mathias

Chapter 1. From Code to Law

• A NORMATIVE SATURATION
• CHANGING FORMS AND SOURCES OF REGULATION
• SUBSTANTIAL PRAGMATISM
• UPSTREAMING FROM OLD RULES
• OPENING CONCLUSIONS

Françoise Massit-Folléa

Chapter 2. Standards Agreements and Normative Collisions in Internet Governance

• INTRODUCTION
• CHANGE IN STANDARDS-SETTING
• Internet standards at a glance
• Conflicting models and values in standard-setting
• From standardization-setting complexity to regulation dilemnas
• Normative collisions in Internet Governance
• STANDARDS, NORMS AND PRINCIPLES
• Three Criteria for Standards
• Effectiveness
• Openness
• Legitimacy
• Unicity versus Diversity
• Internet Principles
• Multilingualism online
• Internationalized domain names
• CONCLUSION

Herbert Burkert

Chapter 3. Some comments on the Institutionalization of the Net: ITU or ICANN, is there an ideal solution?

• INSTITUTIONS AND INFRASTRUCTURES: THE STORIES OF ITU AND ICANN
• ITU OR ICANN OR?...
• IDEAL-TYPE INSTITUTION BUILDING TO MASTER FLUIDITY?
• ADAPTING TO FLUIDITY?
• OUTLOOK

Romain Badouard, Francesca Musiani, Cécile Méadel et al.

Chapter 4. Towards a Typology of Internet Governance Sociotechnical Arrangements

• INTRODUCTION
• Theoretical foundations
• Hypotheses and method
• INTEGRATION
• Criteria
• Discussion
• NORMATIVE PROCESS
• Criteria
• Discussion
• ASSESSMENT
• Criteria
• Discussion
• TOWARDS A TYPOLOGY: EVALUATING PERFORMANCE
• Criteria
• Concluding discussion
• CONCLUDING REMARKS

Claudia Padovani

Chapter 5. Democracy and global governance: the wager of the Internet Governance Forum

• THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS AND EMPIRICAL IMPLICATIONS: AN ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK
• Democratic principles and the governance of global communications
• Discursive interaction and global democracy
• Norms and world politics: a critical view on the multi-stakeholder principle
• Looking at trans-national governance networks
• An analytical framework
• THE DEMOCRATIC WAGER OF THE INTERNET GOVERNANCE FORUM (IGF)
• Discursive interaction and the democratic wager
• The formation of norms and the democratic wager
• Networking through technology and the democratic wager
• CONCLUDING REMARKS

Bernhard Rieder

Chapter 6. Institutionalizing without Institutions? Web 2.0 and the Conundrum of Democracy

• INTRODUCTION
• BETWEEN STATUTORY AND CAPILLARY CONCEPTS OF POWER
• Institution, governance, and power
• Studying power on the Internet
• SELF-ORGANIZATION AND WEB 2.0
• The Internet elite
• American Political Mythology
• Web 2.0 as a scaled-up community
• SELF-ORGANIZATION AND SOFTWARE AS INSTITUTION
• Self-organization as placeholder
• Software as institution
• DEMOCRACY AS SET OF CONTRADICTIONS
• Democracy as community?
• Democracy as deliberation?
• Democracy as fundamentally contradictory?
• CONCLUSION: PLATFORM POWER AND THE CULTURE OF CIRCUMVENTION

Dominique Boullier

Chapter 7. Preserving diversity in social network architectures

• REVIEW OF DIVERSITY IN THE ECOLOGY OF SOCIAL NETWORKS
• The difficult survival of cultural differences
• Towards a global experience (via Facebook)
• An anti-network architecture
• Permanent controversies concerning personal data
• A great tradition of digital lock-ins
• The advantages of de facto conventions for “network literacy”
• DIVERSITY AS A DESIRABLE AND NECESSARY POLITICAL QUALITY
• What is the problem?
• Reducing the digital divide: reduction of inequalities or preservation of diversity?
• “THE social network” does not exist
• PLURALISM OF ARCHITECTURES AND GOVERNANCE IN ORDER TO PRESERVE DIVERSITY
• Pluralism of the formats of contribution
• Pluralism of the management of inter-operability between social networks
• What governance in order to preserve diversity?
• CONCLUSION: INVENTING LEVERS OF ACTION FOR THE GOVERNANCE OF NETWORKS BY COLLECTIVES

Dominique Cardon

Chapter 8. Discipline but not Punish: The governance of Wikipedia

• HOW DO THE WIKI KEEP IN MIND THE EPISTEMIC SCOPE OF WIKIPEDIA?
• LESSON N° 1. [[WP: IGNORE ALL THE RULES]] – TRANSFORM THE FOUNDING SPIRIT INTO PUBLIC AND ACCESSIBLE RULES
• The constitutional moment of the on-line communities
• LESSON N°2. [[WP: COMMENT YOUR MODIFICATIONS]] – PARTICIPATING ALSO INVOLVES KEEPING WATCH AND SANCTIONING
• Local, the sanction is an educational gesture
• LESSON N°3. [[WP: NO PERSONAL ATTACKS]] – SEPARATING PERSONS AND CONTENTS
• Preferring verifiability over truth
• LESSON N°4. [[WP: REQUESTING DISPUTE RESOLUTION]] – CENTRALISE THE PUNISHMENTS SO AS TO MAKE THEM RARE
• “We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code”
• LESSON°5. [[WP: WIKILOVE]] – MAKING A PROCEDURE OF HOSPITALITY
• THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE IGNORANT

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