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Record Nr.

UNINA9910947535903321

Autore

Bellon Anne

Titolo

A Socio-History of Internet Policies : Weaving the Digital State in France / / by Anne Bellon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031690990

3031690990

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 pages)

Collana

International Series on Public Policy, , 2524-731X

Disciplina

320.6

Soggetti

Political planning

Internet - Social aspects

Technology - Sociological aspects

Public Policy

Internet Studies

Science, Technology and Society

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Origins of Networks: From Research Policies to Internet Politics -- Chapter 3: The State against the Internet: Bureaucratic Resistance to the network in France -- Chapter 4: Geeks, Webmasters and State technologists: Evangelizing the Internet -- Chapter 5: A Revolutionary moment?: Experimenting e-Government in France -- Chapter 6: The pirate years: Copyright policies in the 2000-2010 decade -- Chapter 7: Towards a digital mainstreaming -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: A Multi-Faceted Digital Revolution.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the development of internet policymaking over the last forty years. Drawing on evidence from France and elsewhere, it adopts a sociohistorical perspective to offer insights into the ways democratic states regulate the internet and digital transformation more generally. Adopting a chronological approach and utilising both policy analysis and interviews with key actors, it retells the changing role of the state in internet regulation since the inception of the internet to the present day. It also explores the complex relationships between public



administrations and internet organizations, and considers whether states are really capable of governing the digital space. It will appeal to all those interested in public policy, digital studies, sociology and communication studies. Anne Bellon is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France. Her research interests include internet regulation, online democracy, digital mobilizations and state transformation.