The Global Internet
Overview
Thursday, September 8, 1:30pm-2:30pm
Format: Lecture, featuring guest respondents
Leads: Herbert Burkert and Urs Gasser
Participants: Susan Crawford, Juan Carlos de Martin, Catharina Maranke, and others
In the global online space, traditional legal frameworks, such as public international law and international private law, come together with new developments, such as evolving Internet law (focused on new regulations addressing international Internet issues), to create different models for, and forms of, digital governance. Processes and structures, such as online dispute resolution systems, Terms of Use policies, and other mechanisms also shape user activity and permissible behavior. Actions and interventions by private actors, NGOs, and international organizations, also exert control, by defining use and activity, permitting or denying access, and facilitating policy making—all with varying degrees of harmonization, conflict, and evolution. Through a series of case studies, the attributes, influence, and evolution of these mechanisms will be explored in the context of e-commerce, media and free expression, technical and organizational infrastructure, and other values.
Required Readings
The State of Online Business
- Dion Hinchcliffe, "The app store: The new ‘must-have’ digital business model," available at
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=1172.
- Donnie Dong, “Ten Websites Lead You Understanding the Features of Cinternet”, available at
http://english.blawgdog.com/2010/01/ten-websites-leads-you-understanding.html.
- Andrew Keen, Why We Must Resist the Temptation of Web 2.0, in in Berin Szoka and Adam
Marcus (Eds.), The Next Digital Decade (2010), available at http://nextdigitaldecade.com/ndd_book.pdf#page=52