Session
GigaNet
Roxana Radu, Graduate Institute Geneva, Academia, Western Europe;
Ioana Stupariu, Central European University, Academia, Eastern Europe;
Alison Gillwald, Research ICT Africa and University of Cape Town, civil society and academia, Africa;
Dmitry Epstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, academia, Middle East;
Elinor Carmi, LIverpool University, academia, Western Europe;
Courtney Radsch, Commitee to Protect Journalists, civil society, United States
Many early-career and established academics from around the world researching Internet governance
As in previous years, the conference will feature several panels, each covering 3-4 papers with an assigned chair and discussant. The conference is followed by the GigaNet Business meeting.
English
GigaNet Symposium at IGF – 6 December 2021
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Program (all times indicated below are in CET)
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14.00-14.05 Introduction and Welcome
Dmitry Epstein, GigaNet Chair
Roxana Radu, Program Chair 2021
14.05-15.35 Parallel Sessions 1
PANEL 1A: PLATFORM REGULATION
The Paradox of Platform Monopoly between Tecent and Facebook :Theory, Practice and Governance, Tianchan Mao and Yu Wen
The Telegram Ban: How censorship “made in Russia” faces a global Internet, Ksenia Ermoshina and Francesca Musiani
New School Speech Regulation and Online Hate Speech: A Case Study of Germany’s NetzDG, Rachel Griffin
Neural Governance, Brenda Dannecker
Let’s think global: Social Media Commission – A Federated Model for Governance, Kamesh Shekar
PANEL 1B: THE GOVERNANCE OF PRIVACY
Dark Patterns and Privacy Harms: Accountability and Agency in an Age of Disappearing Privacy, Chelsea Horne
Privacy by debate: A content analysis of post Cambridge Analytica congressional hearings, Dmitry Epstein and Rotem Medzini
When Web Crawlers Infringe Personal Information: Judicial Evidence, Legal Governance and Legalistic Swamp of China, Yangkun Huang and Sini Su
Making Data Private – and Excludable: A new approach to understanding the role of data enclosure in the digital political economy, Brenden Kuerbis and Milton Mueller
15.35-15.40 Break
15.40-17.10 Parallel Sessions 2
PANEL 2A: DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY
Sovereignty in Cyberspace: EU and China Compared, Yik Chan Chin and Ke Li
Digital Sovereignty and Platform Governance: A European Constitutional Laboratory, Giovanni De Gregorio
Idealized Agency: Investigating Digital Sovereignty in Data Governance Controversies, Anke Obendiek
The Juridic Governance of the Internet, Moritz Schramm
Developing Order Through Socialization: China’s Ideological Persuasion to Build a Rules-Based Order for Cyberspace, Rachel Hulvey
PANEL 2B: INTERNET GOVERNANCE DURING THE PANDEMIC
Digital policies in Latin America in time of pandemics, Bernadette Califano and Martin Becerra
The Road (Not) Taken: Israel, COVID-19 and the SHABAC, Sharon Haleva-Amir
An Empirical Research in China of How to Tackle Infodemic: Stakeholders and Algorithms, Zining Wang and Xu Jing
17.10-17.15 Break
17.15-18.45 Parallel Sessions 3
PANEL 3A: INTERNET PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES UNDER THE MAGNIFYING GLASS
An ideal in crisis: Critiquing the global politics of internet freedom rankings, Tetyana Lokot and Mariëlle Wijermars
Inequities of access in/at spaces of global Internet governance dialogue and exchange, Henna Zamurd-Butt
AI Narratives and Unequal Conditions: Analysing the Discourse of Expert Voices in Liminal Communicative Spaces, Alexa Robertson and Max Maccarone
Boundary work in Internet governance: the historic role of layers and the E2E argument, Carolina Aguerre and Diego Canabarro
5G and the notion of network ideology, or: the limitations of sociotechnical imaginaries, Niels ten Oever
PANEL 3B: MAPPING AGENCY AND STAKEHOLDER DYNAMICS
Who do you think you are? Individual stakeholder identification and mobility at the Internet Governance Forum, Nadia Tjahja, Trisha Meyer, Jamal Shahin
The Geopolitics of Digital Rights Discourse: Mapping Civil Society Representation at RightsCon, Rohan Grover
Filling the gap between principle and practice: building an ethical and human rights-based tool-kit for AI development, Palladino Nicola
The prohibition on extraterritorial enforcement jurisdiction in the datasphere, Asaf Lubin
18.45-19.45 GigaNet Business Meeting