[CPWG] Suggested reading: "Hegemonic practices in multistakeholder Internet governance: Participatory evangelism, quiet politics, and glorification of status quo at ICANN meetings"

Tue Apr 18 14:31:24 UTC 2023

Interesting. Thanks for sharing the article Joanna.

It may be noted that ALAC is only referenced once in the article content,
and then only as a definition. Even the definition of ALAC has a
spelling error ... "Ad-Large Advisory Committee".

Cheers,
David

On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 9:35 AM gopal via CPWG <cpwg at icann.org> wrote:

> Joanna,
>
> Many thanks for sharing the article at:
>
> https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01972243.2023.2194295
> <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01972243.2023.2194295>
> Hegemonic practices in multistakeholder Internet governance: Participatory
> evangelism, quiet politics, and glorification of status quo at ICANN
> meetings
> <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01972243.2023.2194295>
> In this exploratory study we examine a less scrutinized aspect of
> multistakeholder arrangements: the presence and directionality of hegemonic
> power in the language used in the stakeholder deliberat...
> www.tandfonline.com
>
> "However, as the users of the Internet increased exponentially since the
> 1990s, the “technical regime” (Hofmann Citation2009
> <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01972243.2023.2194295#>)
> came to be seen as ill-suited for dealing with the consequent economic,
> legal, political, and social issues (Goldsmith and Wu Citation2006
> <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01972243.2023.2194295#>)."
> - My choice excerpt from this article.
>
> I was very actively with Internet Governance through ICANN until the end
> of 2007. I think that the DNS Wars were largely the outcome of the
> pronounced shift to make technology sublime and hope that is the best way
> of catering to the end-users who keep increasing exponentially.
>
> To my mind, IDNs was a great idea to restore the balance. "Language" is
> the stiffest challenge in this approach till today. It is thus very
> understandable that factors associated with Language and Governance do
> manifest. Some of them are briskly outlined in this article.
>
> It is a good article to read but no real surprise factors for me. The
> ICANN multi-stakeholder model is worth working with systemic ideas such as
> resilience and an elucidation on the fact that a "Personal" computer does
> warrant "Personal" focus with a set of "Personal" Aspects going down the
> wire and into the world connected by the Internet. A device / thing in any
> form has a "Personal Ownership" tag [Not all of this is necessarily what we
> call "Data"].
>
> The ICANN Model for Mutli-stakeholder may have to foster "Collaboration of
> Civilizations" at large. The economics at the edge are the serious concern. It
> is time to get the technology - edge in ICANN yet again.
>
> Your thoughts....
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
>
> Gopal T V
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> CPWG <cpwg at icann.org>
> *Sent:* 18 April 2023 14:47
> *To:* 'CPWG CPWG' <cpwg at icann.org>
> *Subject:* [CPWG] Suggested reading: "Hegemonic practices in
> multistakeholder Internet governance: Participatory evangelism, quiet
> politics, and glorification of status quo at ICANN meetings"
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> Thought this might be a useful reference for our MSM discussions:
>
>
>
> “Hegemonic practices in multistakeholder Internet governance:
> Participatory evangelism, quiet politics, and glorification of status quo
> at ICANN meetings”
> https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01972243.2023.2194295
>
> The authors found that: “three primary rhetorical devices – participatory
> evangelism, quiet politics, and glorification of the status quo – were
> present, which reinforce the entrenched power structure that favors some
> stakeholders and interfere with other stakeholders’ efforts to influence
> Internet governance decisions.”
>
>
>
> Particularly interesting when compared with the commissioned ICANN study
> on its legitimacy and accountability, summarized by the authors e.g. here:
>
> https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/3204233
>
> and here
> https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/3446984
>
>
>
> We might wish to use these when attempting to ensure more diversity,
> stronger end user representation, multilingualism and UA, optionally also
> in SubPro and PICs debates, given the paper’s focus on GNSO and PDPs
> challenges.
>
>
>
> Just a thought, with all best wishes,
>
> Joanna
>
>
>
>
>
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