Departmental Papers (ASC)
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
12-2005
Publication Source
Global Media and Communication
Volume
1
Issue
3
Start Page
357
Last Page
373
DOI
10.1177/1742766505058129
Abstract
This article maintains that the price for inclusion in the World Summit on the Information Society – which finally has been achieved through the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) – has been the erosion of an oppositional civil society within the summit itself. Specifically, it evaluates the development of the WGIG as a manifestation of global neo-corporatism. In doing so, the article addresses recurrent patterns within neo-corporatist policy concertation that is oriented toward satisfying neoliberal economic imperatives. The objective of this article is to provide an analysis of processes by which the diversity of interest representation that was characteristic of the first phase of the WSIS has become condensed into one agenda item focused on internet governance.
Keywords
gender, global policy, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), internet governance, neo-corporatism, neoliberalism, Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG), World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
Recommended Citation
McLaughlin, L., & Pickard, V. (2005). What Is Bottom-Up About Global Internet Governance?. Global Media and Communication, 1 (3), 357-373. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742766505058129
Date Posted: 23 May 2016
This document has been peer reviewed.