Multistakeholder governance processes as production sites: enhanced cooperation "in the making"

Julia Pohle

Internet Policy Review: Journal on Internet Regulation, 2016, vol. 5, issue 3, 1-19

Abstract: The paper combines actor-network theory and interpretative policy analysis to conceptualise multistakeholder arrangements in internet governance as production sites in which heterogeneous actors engage in dynamic processes of social ordering such as shared meaning-making and coalition building. The paper draws on existing research that traces processes of social ordering at the intersection of multistakeholder settings and intergovernmental institutions, and on theoretical considerations of multistakeholder mechanisms in internet governance. By focusing on processes of discursive production, the paper adds a new perspective to the existing body of literature on science and technology studies and internet governance, and provides illustrations based on deliberations of the Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation.

Keywords: Actor-Network Theory; Interpretative Policy Analysis; Hybrid space; Discourse; Black box (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.14763/2016.3.432

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