Building and defending the alternative Internet: the birth of the digital rights movement in France

Pétin, Patrick; Tréguer, Félix

doi:10.1080/24701475.2018.1521059

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“…1 Most of the work on the Internet's history is centred around technological developments, paying less attention to the political, social or cultural forces shaping of the Internet (Abbate, 2017;Carr, 2016, p. 14). In addition, these historical accounts often have a US-American focus and ignore "alternative histories" about the evolution of digital networks (Pétin & Tréguer, 2018).…”

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Centrality and Power: The Struggle over the Techno-Political Configuration of the Internet and the Global Digital Order

Pohle,

Voelsen

2023

Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series

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Centrality and Power: The Struggle over the Techno-Political Configuration of the Internet and the Global Digital Order

Pohle,

Voelsen

2023

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“…In France, the successes and failures of the French Data Network, France's first public Internet Access Provider (IAP) created in 1992, were immediately tied to changes in telecom regulation that were enacted with much bigger players in mind (Tréguer and Trudel 2019). Conversely, the French "Digital Rights" milieu that formed in the mid-1990s allowed for positive cross-fertilisation between advocacy activities and the development of alternative infrastructures (Tréguer and Pétin 2018). The other case study on first-generation CNs was focused on Consume.net, a WiFi-based wireless community network born in London in the late 1990s.…”

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The Political Defence of the Commons: The Case of Community Networks

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Rosnay²

2020

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This article reflects on experiences of political advocacy which have been led by Community Networks activists in Germany, France and Spain to support the sustainability of bottom-up initiatives aiming at building community-owned telecom infrastructures, or “telecommons”. While pointing to the diversity of action repertoires used by various Community Networks across Europe, the article points to the potential of these instances of political advocacy to democratise both telecommunications and policy-making in the telecom sector, an area that is prone to both eviction of small actors and regulatory capture by special economic interests. It also suggests that their repertoires offer a set of reproducible tactics available to very small actors without dedicated advocacy staff or budget. Speaking to the inventiveness of grassroots initiatives, the article concludes by analysing the potential and pitfalls of political advocacy for small-scale social movements working for the political defence of the commons, and communities which are under risk of enclosure and capitalist co-optation.

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“…11Most of the work on the Internet's history is centred around technological developments, paying less attention to the political, social or cultural forces shaping of the Internet (Abbate, 2017; Carr, 2016, p. 14). In addition, these historical accounts often have a US‐American focus and ignore “alternative histories” about the evolution of digital networks (Pétin & Tréguer, 2018). …”

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Centrality and power. The struggle over the techno‐political configuration of the Internet and the global digital order

Pohle

Voelsen

2022

Policy & Internet

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In recent years, various governments have been trying to subordinate the Internet to the system of the Westphalian state order. This article seeks to add a new layer to the analysis of this conflict over state sovereignty and the global digital order. It draws on network theory as an alternative analytical lens to study the reconfiguration of power relations that define the Internet as a technical, social and economic network, and its governance. We review key conflicts and developments that shaped the Internet's history, from the Internet exceptionalists' visions in the 1990s to states' recent pursuits of digital sovereignty and trace how states, as well as private companies, seek to fundamentally reconfigure the dominant logic of the Internet and its sub‐networks to expand and institutionalise their power position. We thus highlight a deeper layer of conflict: the current struggles over the techno‐political configuration of the Internet are not only influenced by the conflict between liberal and authoritarian visions of the Internet; they are also the result of continuous tensions between processes of centralisation and decentralisation of the Internet's technical foundations and its governance. As an effect of these dynamics, we currently witness a pluralisation of power while, at the same time, new points of centralised control emerge.

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Building and defending the alternative Internet: the birth of the digital rights movement in France

Cited by 5 publications

References 22 publications

Centrality and Power: The Struggle over the Techno-Political Configuration of the Internet and the Global Digital Order

Centrality and Power: The Struggle over the Techno-Political Configuration of the Internet and the Global Digital Order

The Political Defence of the Commons: The Case of Community Networks

Centrality and power. The struggle over the techno‐political configuration of the Internet and the global digital order

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