Internet co-regulation : European law, regulatory governance and legitimacy in cyberspace / Christopher T. Marsden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marsden, Christopher T., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet--Law and legislation--Europe.

Internet.

Computer networks--Law and legislation--Europe.

Computer networks.

Internet--Law and legislation.

Computer networks--Law and legislation.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 284 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Chris Marsden argues that co-regulation is the defining feature of the Internet in Europe. Co-regulation offers the state a route back into questions of legitimacy, governance and human rights, thereby opening up more interesting conversations than a static no-regulation versus state regulation binary choice. The basis for the argument is empirical investigation, based on a multi-year, European Commission-funded study and is further reinforced by the direction of travel in European and English law and policy, including the Digital Economy Act 2010. He places Internet regulation within the regulatory mainstream, as an advanced technocratic form of self- and co-regulation which requires governance reform to address a growing constitutional legitimacy gap. The literature review, case studies and analysis shed a welcome light on policymaking at the centre of Internet regulation in Brussels, London and Washington, revealing the extent to which states, firms and, increasingly, citizens are developing a new type of regulatory bargainches.

Contents:

States, firms and legitimacy of regulation : insoluble issues?

Internet co-regulation and constitutionalism

Self-organization and social networks

An empire entire of itself? : Standards, domain names and government

Content regulation and the Internet

Private ISP censorship

Analyzing case studies

Internet co-regulation as part of the broader regulatory debate.

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Print version:

ISBN:

9780511763410

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