Discursive Legitimation in the Cultures of Internet Policymaking
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12918282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tamara Shepherd (University of Calgary, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 231-246 |
| Publication date | 2018-02-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Communication Culture and Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-9137 • E-ISSN: 1753-9129 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ccc/tcx020 |
| OpenAlex | W2794614664 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 28 |
A socio-technical lens on the development of the Internet suggests that policymaking plays a constitutive role in the meanings of technology and its uses. In the Canadian context, I trace how early “information society” discourses underlying negative policy strategies continued into current discursive legitimations of the Internet as essential communications infrastructure. The federal regulator’s 2015–2016 Review of Basic Telecommunications Services public proceedings forms a case study that highlights how certain discourses become legitimized and others recede, ultimately resulting in a maintenance of the regulatory status quo despite the appearance of a public interest imperative
Context (archaeology · Legitimation · Political science · Politics · Public policy · Public relations · Sociology · Status quo · The Internet · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies · E-Government and Public Services · Social Media and Politics · Law · Public Administration
Sorting Things Out
Policy and participation on the Canadian information highway
Ideology and policy
Canadian Telecommunications
The Institutional Development of Indigenous Broadband Infrastructure in Canada and the United States
A Tale of Two Regulators
Media Policy Silences
A Corresponding Fields Model for the Links Between Social and Digital Exclusion
New visions, old practices
Institutional Ecology, `Translations' and Boundary Objects
Universal Service
Media policy after regulation
Information Society Theory as Ideology
Danger! Metaphors at Work in Economics, Geophysiology, and the Internet
Situated Learning
Undoing the Demos
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |