Project Details
Projekt
Evolving Internet Interfaces: Content Control and Privacy Protection
Applicant
Professor Dr. Markus Jachtenfuchs
Subject Area
Political Science
Term
from 2017 to 2022
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 277531170
The project aims to analyze conflicts between spheres of authority in transnational internet govern-ance. It focusses on conflicts between public and private authority as well as on conflicts between national and international/transnational spheres. In internet governance, these interface conflicts do not take place between established, solid spheres of authority but between liquid ones (Krisch). They are an essential element in the emergence and evolution of spheres of authority in a rapidly changing field which has not yet found its final shape. The project will analyze the evolution of these interface conflicts over time, the normative justifications employed and the outcomes of those conflicts. In the context of the research group, it functions as a contrast project for assessing how the analytical apparatus of the framework paper can be employed in non-typical contexts which are characterized by liquidity and a strong role of private authority.
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