This editors' introduction provides a short summary of the Snowden revelations and the paradoxical political and public responses to them. It further provides an overview of the current academic debate triggered by the Snowden case and the documents leaked by him and introduces the articles...

This editors' introduction provides a short summary of the Snowden revelations and the paradoxical political and public responses to them. It further provides an overview of the current academic debate triggered by the Snowden case and the documents leaked by him and introduces the articles...

This special issue of info contains papers selected from the Seventh Annual Symposium of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet), which took place in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November 2012

This paper sets out a analytical framework to explore the relations between Internet actors, technical and software instruments of control and the regulatory environment supporting, questioning or regulating the use of these instruments. We introduce six abstract dimensions of control which are...

In France the government, the content sector and ISPs reached an agreement on an initiative to curb online copyright infringement on the Net in the so-called Olivennes Memorandum of Understanding of 23 November 2007. According to the MoU Internet users infringing on copyright laws receive two...

Wireless City Networks are a recent, but growing phenomenon. In the United States hundreds of cities are looking into the possibility of rolling out Wifi or WiMAX based networks over substantial parts of the city. Worldwide it is estimated that more than 1.000 cities have plans to deploy such...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is the only organisation of the United Nations with a clear mandate related to communication and information. This thesis closes a gap in research about UNESCO and its involvement in international communication debates...

The article analyzes one of the earliest intergovernmental initiatives regarding Internet constitutionalism. Based on an analytical framework that combines argumentative discourse analysis with elements from actor–network theory, it assesses the actors and discourses involved in the...

While internet privacy has been a central concern for quite a long time, the revelations by Edward Snowden about the US National Security Agency's massive surveillance programme have highlighted the extent to which it is a core political issue. The privacy-surveillance controversy has prompted...