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Who Governs the Internet? Robert J. Domanski

Who Governs the Internet? By Robert J. Domanski

Who Governs the Internet? by Robert J. Domanski


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This book adopts a policy-based approach toward internet governance. It broadens the definition of internet governance and reintroduces the question of who governs the actual activity that occurs on the Internet by examining the policy process affecting the Internet's infrastructure, technical protocols, software applications, and content.

Who Governs the Internet? Summary

Who Governs the Internet?: A Political Architecture by Robert J. Domanski

There remains a widespread perception among both the public and elements of academia that the Internet is ungovernable. However, this idea, as well as the notion that the Internet has become some type of cyber-libertarian utopia, is wholly inaccurate. Governments may certainly encounter tremendous difficulty in attempting to regulate the Internet, but numerous types of authority have nevertheless become pervasive. So who, then, governs the Internet? This book will contend that the Internet is, in fact, being governed, that it is being governed by specific and identifiable networks of policy actors, and that an argument can be made as to how it is being governed. This book will present a new conceptual framework for analysis that deconstructs the Internet into four policy layers with the aim of formulating a new political architecture that accurately maps out and depicts authority on the Internet today. Foremost, it will seek to draw a distinction between those actors who have a demonstrable policymaking authority versus those who merely wield influence. The book will then apply this four-layer model to an analysis of U.S. national cybersecurity policy, post-9/11. Ultimately, it will seek to determine the consequences of these political arrangements and governance policies.

Who Governs the Internet? Reviews

Domanski's book presents a thoughtful deconstruction of the power brokers on the Internet. His model sets an important foundation for scholars to explore the implications of the Internet in multiple disciplines. -- Kevin M. Wagner, Florida Atlantic University

About Robert J. Domanski

Robert J. Domanski is an instructor of political science and computer science at the City University of New York.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1-Framing the Question, Who Governs the Internet? Chapter 2-A Brief History of the Internet as Told Through Four Policy Layers Chapter 3-Who Governs the Infrastructure? Chapter 4-Who Governs the Technical Protocols? Chapter 5-Who Governs the Applications? Chapter 6-Who Governs the Content? Chapter 7-Analysis of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace (NSSC) Problem Definition: How to Defend the Nation's Critical Cyber Assets from Attack? The Policymaking Process and Policy Design Behind the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace (NSSC) Implementation and the Emerging Bureaucratic Regime Cybersecurity Policy and Politics in the Obama Administration Cybersecurity Policy In Action: What Actually Happens in the Face of a Cyberattack? What This Case Study on U.S. National Cybersecurity Policy Demonstrates: The Primacy of Private Commercial Firms Chapter 8-Internet Policymaking Moving Forward

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NLS9781498512725
9781498512725
1498512720
Who Governs the Internet?: A Political Architecture by Robert J. Domanski
New
Paperback
Lexington Books
2017-07-17
222
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