[Commlist] new book: Global Standard Setting in Internet Governance

Message title: New Book Announcement: Global Standard Setting in 
Internet Governance

Message body: Global Standard Setting in Internet Governance (Oxford: 
Oxford University Press, Jan 2020)

Alison Harcourt (University of Exeter)
George Christou (University of Warwick)
Seamus Simpson (University of Salford)

The book addresses representation of the public interest in Internet 
standard developing organisations (SDOs). Much of the existing 
literature on Internet governance focuses on international organisations 
such as the United Nations (UN), the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and 
the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The 
literature covering standard developing organisations has to date 
focused on organisational aspects. This book breaks new ground with 
investigation of standard development within SDO fora. Case studies 
centre on standards relating to privacy and security, mobile 
communications, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and copyright. The 
book lifts the lid on internet standard setting with detailed insight 
into a world which, although highly technical, very much affects the way 
in which citizens live and work on a daily basis. In doing this it adds 
significantly to the trajectory of research on Internet standards and 
SDOs that explore the relationship between politics and protocols. The 
analysis contributes to academic debates on democracy and the internet, 
global self-regulation and civil society, and international 
decision-making processes in unstructured environments. The book 
advances work on the Multiple Streams Framework (MS) by applying it to 
decision-making in non-state environments, namely SDOs which have long 
been dominated by private actors.



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