Description: The aim of the symposium is to explore what comes next in internet 9:45governance (IG) as a field of inquiry. The proposal is motivated by the perception that the practice of IG has changed considerably since the beginning of the internet, amplifying the historical challenge to define the borders of IG studies. More importantly, we ask how the technical discussions in IG can increasingly dialogue with critical perspectives that de-center western interpretations, center the people and invisible actors, and expand the variables of analysis to include gender, race, ethnicity, disability, the global South, and non-humans in their core. Anti-colonial, anti-racist, anti-fascist, deep ecological, long-durée historical and political economical perspectives are examples of approaches that IG as a discipline has resisted more than other areas to adopt in its representative studies providing an empirical examination of governance mechanisms. The goal of the symposium is, first, to frame the technopolitics of the internet and its governance using more plural and inclusive paradigms, and second, to situate IG studies in view of quick technological transformations within and on top of its infrastructure. In order to reflect and act on these limitations, we call on IG scholars and scholars from adjacent and intersecting disciplines to collaboratively and intentionally shape the field more broadly contributing to a critical turn in internet governance.

            Room F.001 
            questions: symposium@criticalinfralab.net 

ECo Meeting (EASST Ethics Committee)