Abstract
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | Internet Policy Review |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-15 |
| ISSN | 2197-6775 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- Internet governance
- Science and technology studies (STS)
- Sociology
- Datafication
- Visibilities
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Disclosing and Concealing : Internet Governance, Information Control and the Management of Visibility. / Flyverbom, Mikkel.
In: Internet Policy Review, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2016, p. 1-15.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
TY - JOUR
T1 - Disclosing and Concealing
T2 - Internet Governance, Information Control and the Management of Visibility
AU - Flyverbom, Mikkel
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The ubiquity of digital technologies and the datafication of many domains of social liferaise important questions about governance. In the emergent field of internet governancestudies, most work has explored novel governance arrangements, institutional developmentsand the effects of interactions among public and private actors in the emergence of the internetas a matter of concern in global politics. But the digital realm involves more subtle forms ofgovernance and politics that also deserve attention. In this paper, I suggest that the 'ordering'effects of digital infrastructures also revolve around what I term the ‘management of visibilities’.Drawing on insights from science and technology studies and sociologies of visibility, the paperarticulates how digital technologies afford and condition ordering through the production ofvisibilities and the guidance of attention. The basic tenet of the argument is that there is anintimate relationship between seeing, knowing and governing, and that digitalisation anddatafication processes fundamentally shape how we make things visible or invisible, knowableor unknowable and governable or ungovernable. Having articulated this conceptual argument,the article offers a number of illustrations of such forms of ordering.
AB - The ubiquity of digital technologies and the datafication of many domains of social liferaise important questions about governance. In the emergent field of internet governancestudies, most work has explored novel governance arrangements, institutional developmentsand the effects of interactions among public and private actors in the emergence of the internetas a matter of concern in global politics. But the digital realm involves more subtle forms ofgovernance and politics that also deserve attention. In this paper, I suggest that the 'ordering'effects of digital infrastructures also revolve around what I term the ‘management of visibilities’.Drawing on insights from science and technology studies and sociologies of visibility, the paperarticulates how digital technologies afford and condition ordering through the production ofvisibilities and the guidance of attention. The basic tenet of the argument is that there is anintimate relationship between seeing, knowing and governing, and that digitalisation anddatafication processes fundamentally shape how we make things visible or invisible, knowableor unknowable and governable or ungovernable. Having articulated this conceptual argument,the article offers a number of illustrations of such forms of ordering.
KW - Internet governance
KW - Science and technology studies (STS)
KW - Sociology
KW - Datafication
KW - Visibilities
KW - Internet governance
KW - Science and technology studies (STS)
KW - Sociology
KW - Datafication
KW - Visibilities
U2 - 10.14763/2016.3.428
DO - 10.14763/2016.3.428
M3 - Journal article
VL - 5
SP - 1
EP - 15
JO - Internet Policy Review
JF - Internet Policy Review
SN - 2197-6775
IS - 3
ER -