[ecrea] Preconference workshop @AOIR2016: The Internet Rules, But How? A STS Take on Doing Internet Governance

For all among you attending the AoIR conference in Berlin in October, 
please find below the programme of our pre-conference "The Internet 
Rules, But How? A STS Take on Doing Internet Governance". Please keep in 
mind that the Early Bird deadline for AoIR2016 is August 1st.

Best regards,
Julia, on behalf of the workshop organisers

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       The Internet Rules, But How? A Science and Technology Studies
       (STS) Take on Doing Internet Governance

Organizers:  Dmitry Epstein (University of Illinois, Chicago), Christian 
Katzenbach (Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, 
Berlin), Francesca Musiani (ISCC – CNRS/Paris-Sorbonne/UPMC Paris), 
Julia Pohle (WZB Berlin Social Science Center)

Over the last decade, the regulation and governance of the Internet at 
the national and international level have attracted growing attention by 
policy-makers and researchers. This is particularly the case in 
post-Snowden times which increased distrust of formal government 
institutions and their ‘dangerous liaisons’ with the private sector. 
Accordingly, observing and researching governing processes as they 
relate to the Internet is both timely and important.

Traditionally, researchers and practitioners in Internet governance (IG) 
focused on new institutions established to discuss and negotiate the 
technical coordination of the Internet or related policies. Recently, 
authors have criticized this institutional focus, and perspectives from 
Science and Technology Studies (STS) suggest to rethink and substantiate 
questions of ordering and governing the net. In this view, the ‘doing’ 
of IG more broadly consists in practices and controversies of the 
design, regulation, and use of material infrastructures, as well as 
digital uses and practices.

This preconference workshop seeks to nurture the growing interest in 
researching and observing IG from STS-informed perspectives. More 
broadly, the workshop aims to facilitate a discussion and an exchange of 
perspectives about the intertwined roles of design, infrastructures, and 
informal communities of practice in IG. This workshop is part of a 
broader effort of advancing an STS-informed conversation on Internet 
governance: it builds on the panel on STS perspectives on IG that took 
place during AoIR 2015 in Phoenix and a forthcoming special issue of the 
Internet Policy Review <http://policyreview.info/> (to be published in 
early September 2016).


       Tentative program


08:45     Welcome

09:00     Keynote, Laura DeNardis


09:45     Session I. STS and Theoretical Perspectives on Internet Governance

       * Moderator: Dmitry Epstein

       * Doing Internet Governance: Constructing Normative Structures
         inside and outside Intermediary Organisations
         Tobias Mast, Markus Oermann and Wolfgang Schulz

       * Situated Governance: On Topological Limits to Internet Governance
         Ashwin Mathew

       * Designing a Public Intervention: Towards a Sociotechnical
         Approach to Web Governance
         Faranak Hardcastle, Susan Halford and L. Moreau

       * Building an Authoritarian Counter‐Hegemony? Iran in the Global
         Debate about Internet Governance
         Marcus Michaelsen


11:15     Coffee Break


11:30    Session II. Controversies: Unpacking Internet Governance

       o Moderator: Julia Pohle

       o Privacy Concerns in the Domain Name System
         Samantha Bradshaw and Laura DeNardis

       o SNS Infrastructure as an Actor
         Inbar Michelzon Drori

       o Critical infrastructure due diligence – ISPs, security and
         privacy (tbc)
         Joanna Kulesza

       o Migrating Servers, Elusive Users: Reconfigurations of the
         Russian Internet in the Post-Snowden Era
         Ksenia Ermoshina and Francesca Musiani

13:00        Lunch


14:00     Session III. Round table: Doing STS-informed Internet 
Governance Research

       * Moderator: Francesca Musiani

       * Internet Policy as a Minority Rights Issue
         Andrea Hackl

       * Search engine imaginary. Visions and values in the co-production
         of search technology and Europe
         Astrid Mager

       * Human rights and internet infrastructure. Sociotechnical
         imaginaries and grassroots ordering in internet governance
         Stefania Milan and Niels ten Oever

       * Opening the black box of discursive production in
         multistakeholder policy-making
         Julia Pohle

15:30        Coffee Break

16:00     Round table: Opening the Black Boxes of Today’s Internet 
(Governance)

       * Moderator: Christian Katzenbach

       * Participants: Laura DeNardis (tbc), Jeanette Hofmann, Tarleton
         Gillespie (tbc), Stéphane Couture, Dmitry Epstein


17:30     End of the Workshop







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