Powerscape of Internet Governance

How to conceptualize and study shared power in
multistakeholder collaborations? What are
the lessons learned from the early-ICANN open
deliberations with significance to the current
Internet Governance debate? "Powerscape of Internet
Governance" is an in-depth investigation of the
power
dynamics of global
multistakeholderism in ICANN (Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers). The private
corporation was created in 1998 to manage the
address resources of the global Net. Its
authority and policy decisions have been challenged
ever since by governments and civil society
champions. By applying Foucault s concept of power,
this critical exploration construes the experimental
ICANN as a network of interdependencies, which
generates transformative social impulses. The
powerscape of the 'ICANN case' is
sculpted by analyzing stakeholder practices,
discourses, and strategies. "Powerscape of Internet
Governance"
fills a gap in the literature on global governance
by presenting a case study,
and will be of value to students and scholars in
that field, and to stakeholders participating
in global multistakeholder processes.

Autorentext
Dr Slavka Antonova is a researcher in Communication Studies and teaches at Massey University, New Zealand. She holds PhD titles from Concordia University, Montreal and Moscow University, Russia. She has published on power in Internet governance. Slavka is on the Steering Committee of Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet).

Klappentext
How to conceptualize and study 'shared power' in multistakeholder collaborations? What are the 'lessons learned' from the early-ICANN open deliberations with significance to the current Internet Governance debate? "Powerscape of Internet Governance" is an in-depth investigation of the power dynamics of global multistakeholderism in ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). The private corporation was created in 1998 to manage the address resources of the global Net. Its authority and policy decisions have been challenged ever since by governments and civil society champions. By applying Foucault's concept of power, this critical exploration construes the experimental ICANN as a network of interdependencies, which generates transformative social impulses. The powerscape of the 'ICANN case' is sculpted by analyzing stakeholder practices, discourses, and strategies. "Powerscape of Internet Governance" fills a gap in the literature on global governance by presenting a case study, and will be of value to students and scholars in that field, and to stakeholders participating in global multistakeholder processes.