Science and Technology Studies Approaches to Internet Governance: Controversies and Infrastructures as Internet Politics

Musiani, Francesca

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Understanding Infrastructure as (Internet) Governance

Musiani

2023

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

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The concept of "infrastructure" typically refers to large-scale "physical" and material systems necessary for human organization and activity, such as roads and bridges, grids and sewers. A significant amount of work in geography, anthropology and science and technology studies (STS) has been devoted to exploring the power dynamics, conflicts and disputes, meanings and social relationships embodied in these "physical" infrastructures (for example, Harvey, 2012;Larkin, 2013). However, in the field of ICTs, especially since the introduction of the Internet as a "general-public" technology, an exclusively physical definition of infrastructure might not be the most appropriate. As Geoffrey Bowker and his colleagues point out, "beyond bricks, pipes or cables, infrastructure also includes more abstract entities, such as protocols, standards and memory [… and facilities such as] computing services, help desks and data directories" (Bowker et al., 2010, p. 97). This chapter will take stock of work conducted in the last decade to address how the concept of infrastructure -more particularly information and digital infrastructure, in its different "materialities" -can be mobilized as a heuristic instrument to understand the governance of information and digital technology, especially the Internet. The chapter will discuss the extent to which the infrastructural quality of the "network of networks", rather than natural or inherent, is relational and conditional; and it will examine how, for a better understanding of

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Understanding Infrastructure as (Internet) Governance

Musiani

2023

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

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Data localization as contested and narrated security in the age of digital sovereignty: the case of Switzerland

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Musiani

2024

Information, Communication & Society

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La prédiction de l’homosexualité à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle : une analyse de trois controverses technoscientifiques

Marionneau,

Myles

2024

Canadian Journal of Communication

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Contexte : Les plateformes numériques participent à une reconfiguration des imaginaires liés à la prédiction de l’homosexualité. Analyse : Cet article analyse trois controverses technoscientifiques. La première aborde la prédiction de l’orientation sexuelle des usagers et usagères Facebook sur la base de contenus aimés. La seconde traite d’un dispositif de reconnaissance faciale visant à prédire l’homosexualité. Enfin, la troisième porte sur la capacité présumée des algorithmes de TikTok à influencer l’orientation sexuelle de ses membres. Conclusions et implications : L’analyse des différents imaginaires liés à la prédiction permet de saisir les préoccupations de divers acteurs sociaux quant aux implications que l’intelligence artificielle soulève pour les communautés LGBTQ+.

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Science and Technology Studies Approaches to Internet Governance: Controversies and Infrastructures as Internet Politics

Cited by 3 publications

References 24 publications

Understanding Infrastructure as (Internet) Governance

Understanding Infrastructure as (Internet) Governance

Data localization as contested and narrated security in the age of digital sovereignty: the case of Switzerland

La prédiction de l’homosexualité à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle : une analyse de trois controverses technoscientifiques

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