Product Description

An outstanding line-up of contributors explore the regulation of the internet from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3677733 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 384 pages

Review
'Internet governance will be top of the agenda for years to come. This books sets cornerstones which will frame the debate in many aspects. At the very time when organisations like ICANN set out to test new systems of self-regulation and struggle with the problem of international legitimacy, this book will contribute to give the political, economic and philosophical context to this debate.' - Herbert Ungerer, 1999-2000 Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and Adviser to the European Commission, Directorate General for Competition

From the Back Cover
The impact of digital computing and communications technology has transformed information and transaction costs in socio-economic structures, creating new contingent social and, latterly, business models. With the exponential growth in e-commerce and household mass usage of the Internet, the regulation and ordering of global communities and commerce is being shaped for the structural transformation of national and regional entities into an economy increasingly characterised as 'Information Society', in which sovereignty, regulation and power relationships are dynamic, interdependent and increasingly complex.

This book provides a framework for understanding this transformation. The contributors examine the legal, political, economic and sociological aspects of the regulation of digital communications networks, which are borderless by nature and potentially constitute the first truly global industry. Basing their discussion on a variety of subjects, including the US v. Microsoft antitrust trial, the Internet domain name controversy and the Millennium world trade round, they provide a holistic insight into the broad range of areas which are united by the common theme of the regulation of the Global Information Society.

Issues addressed in the volume include:

* whether the internet can or should be regulated
* the role of national, regional and global institutions in such regulation
* which policy areas will determine the future direction of the GIS
* whether the GIS is a public or private space, governed by democratic or private corporate interests
* the appropriate role for self-regulation of standards in the GIS.

This original volume provides a valuable insight into policymaking in the GIS and is an indispensable guide to the most prominent and salient aspects of the current debates on this subject. It is an essential resource for all those interested in the implication of these debates in fields including Law, Politics, Economics and Communications Studies.

About the Author
Christopher T. Marsden University of Warwick, UK, Richard Higgott University of Warwick, UK, Steven D. Anderman University of Essex, UK, Jonathan Aronson, Fod Barnes, Dr Gunnar Bender, Dr Colin Blackman, Kathe Boehringer Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, Martin Cave Brunel University, UK, Richard Collins Head of Education, British Film Institute, UK, Andrew Charlesworth University of Hull, UK Campbell Cowie British Broadcasting Corporation, UK William J. Drake Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, A. Michael Froomkin University of Miama, Florida, USA, Nicholas Garnham University of Westminster, UK, Thomas Gibbons Manchester University, UK, Dennis Gilhooly Information Infrastructure Advisor, World Bank, Mark Gould Bristol University, UK, Andrew Graham Balliol College, Oxford, UK, Peter C. Grindley Law and Economics Consulting Group, London, UK Perry Keller Kings College London, UK, Mark A. Lemley University of Texas, Austin, USA, Lawrence Lessig Harvard Law School, USA, David McGowan, William H. Melody Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, Eli Noam Columbia Business School, Beth Simone Noveck Yale Law School, USA, Robert Pepper Federal Communications Commission, Monroe Price, Joel R. Reidenbeg Fordham University School of Law, Pamela Samuelson University of California, Berkley, USA, Wolf Sauter University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Alain Servantie, Dr Debora Spar Harvard Business School, USA Lee Tuthill World Trade Organisation, Ad van Loon Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports, The Netherlands, Stefaan Verhulst Wolfson College, Oxford, UK, Leonard Waverman University of Toronto, also visiting Professor at the London Business School, UK, Dimitri Ypsilanti