More Shopping OptionsThere is a struggle over governance of the global information network among national governments and international organizations, corporations and NGOs, elites and civil society. The outcome will determine how we communicate, the extent of our civil liberties and human rights, the profitability of e-commerce, and the richness of cultural expression. This collection looks at the processes by which the global information policy regime is being formed - themselves in conflict - as a foundation for understanding its emergent features.
Sandra Braman is Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
List of Tables and Figures Notes on the Contributors * Introduction: The Processes of Emergence--S.Braman * The Emergent Global Information Policy Regime--S.Braman * Codification in Context--B.Kahin * ICANN and INTELSAT: Global Communication Technologies and their Incorporation into International Regimes--M.Mueller and D.Thompson * The Persistence and Breakdown of Exclusion and Territoriality in Global Telecommunications Regimes--J.P.Singh * Projecting EU Regimes Abroad: The EU Data Protection Directive as Global Standard--D.Heisenberg and M-H.Fandel * Networks and the Evolution of Property Rights in the Global, Knowledge-based Economy--D.L.Garcia * Implications of Elite Decision-making for Global Information Policy--D.L.Cogburn * Private Governance for Global Communications: Technology, Contracts and the Internet--H.Klein * Internet Points of Control--J.Zittrain * References * Index
