<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>Liebe Kolleg*innen, hier noch mal die Erinnerung an die Deadline für den Workshop in Antwerpen im Juni. VG Simone Claar<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div lang="NL" link="blue" vlink="purple" class=""><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">**Sorry for cross posting**</span></i><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Dear all, <o:p class="">
</o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">This is a reminder for our two-day workshop “Good bye, anarchy? Internet politics in the 21st century” that we organize during the Annual Convention of the Belgian Association for Political
Science (VPW) and the Dutch Political Science Association (NKWP) in Antwerp (13 and 14 June 2019). This workshop consists of four panels aimed at unfolding the tensions around the regulation of the internet. Which actors try to limit internet freedoms, which
actors try to defend them, and what are their motivations? What is the institutional context of their contestations? And finally, what could the internet look like in the future?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Below, you will find a more detailed description of our panel.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" class="">
<i class="">Please send your abstract (max 300 words) and contact details to Thomas R. Eimer (<a href="mailto:t.eimer@fm.ru.nl" class="">t.eimer@fm.ru.nl</a>) and Daniëlle Flonk (<a href="mailto:flonk@hertie-school.org" class="">flonk@hertie-school.org</a>) by 15 March 2018, at the latest.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. <o:p class=""></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">More information on the Convention can be found under:
<a href="https://politicologenetmaal.eu/" class=""><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none" class="">https://politicologenetmaal.eu/</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Kind regards,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Thomas R. Eimer and Daniëlle Flonk<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Good bye, anarchy? Internet politics in the 21st century<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b class=""><span lang="FR-BE" class="">Chairs<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="FR-BE" class="">Thomas R. Eimer (Radboud Universiteit),
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="mailto:t.eimer@fm.ru.nl" class="">t.eimer@fm.ru.nl</a></span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="FR-BE" class="">Daniëlle Flonk (Hertie School of Governance),
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="mailto:flonk@hertie-school.org" class="">flonk@hertie-school.org</a></span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Short description<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Our panel aims at unfolding the tensions around the regulation of the internet. Which actors try to limit internet freedoms, which actors try to defend them, and what are their motivations?
What is the institutional context of their contestations? And finally, what could the internet look like in the future?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Long abstract
<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Conventional wisdom perceives the internet as a free harbor for all kinds of social, cultural, and economic interactions. At least implicitly, this perception is linked to the internet pioneers’
vision of a digital sphere of freedom and independence. Empirically, however, this perception can hardly be upheld anymore. National and international authorities are increasingly interfering with the internet via regulation in various fields. The prevention
of hate speech and fake news upright to online censorship are the most prominently discussed examples. But international organizations and bureaucracies also limit the openness of the internet by intellectual property and privacy regulations, the persecution
of cybercrime and cyberterrorism, and intermediary liability regulation. At the same time, large private companies (e.g. Google, Facebook) are increasingly dominating the most popular spaces within the internet and create entry barriers for newcomers.
<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" class="">At the same time, however, we are witnessing countervailing dynamics. For instance, the European Commission refers to antitrust measures to avoid oligopolistic strictures, and the European Parliament
understands itself as the guardian of net neutrality. Simultaneously, civil society actors defend the openness of the internet both inside and outside the institutionalized decision-making structures. While their engagement for internet freedom is essentially
based on idealistic motivations, many dark net participants also have commercial reasons to insist on an uncontrolled digital sphere.
<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Our panel aims at unfolding the tensions around the regulation of the digital sphere. Which actors try to limit internet freedoms, which actors try to defend them, and what are their motivations?
What is the institutional context (national, international, global) of their contestations? And finally, what are the immediate consequences, and what could the internet look like in the future? We are looking forward to empirical (both quantitative and qualitative),
conceptual, and normative contributions.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Language papers</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class="">: English<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Language discussion</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class="">: English<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Please send your abstract (max 300 words) and contact details to Daniëlle Flonk and Thomas R. Eimer by March 15, 2018, at the latest.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p>
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