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Governing Through Imagination: Approaching Internet Governance in Authoritarian Contexts

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Despite the fact that working with imaginaries is already widely acknowledged in Internet studies their use in Internet policy studies still remains limited. In this paper I approach studying Internet governance from the perspective of “sociotechnical imaginaries”. I argue that this concept can prove to be especially useful in studying authoritarian policy-settings and elucidate relationship between stakeholders in the field of Internet governance.

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  1. Higher School of Economics, Myasnitskaya 20, Moscow, Russia

    Dmitry Muravyov

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  1. St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Svetlana S. Bodrunova

  2. National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Olessia Koltsova

  3. SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway

    Asbjørn Følstad

  4. Inria, Le Chesnay, France

    Harry Halpin

  5. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

    Polina Kolozaridi

  6. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

    Leonid Yuldashev

  7. St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Anna Smoliarova

  8. TU München, Munich, Germany

    Heiko Niedermayer

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Muravyov, D. (2019). Governing Through Imagination: Approaching Internet Governance in Authoritarian Contexts. In: Bodrunova, S., et al. Internet Science. INSCI 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11551. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17705-8_20

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