This essay proposes an analytical approach that conceptualises internet policy as a field of struggle which emerges … through processes of discursive institutionalisation. By combining field theory and selected Science and Technology Studies … shaped internet policy. Drawing on interviews and document analysis, the essay illustrates the proposed research approach via …

-2017) and examine the case of data retention legislation to determine if it had the effect sought by internet policy … entrepreneurs of the time. Thereby, we contribute to a better understanding of whether internet issues became institutionalised in …

The history of the Internet has been narrated many times. However, political histories of the Internet with a non … Internet’s history in Germany through the lens of semantic changes in press coverage on politics. In our investigation, we … change and political conflict from the perspective of discourse theory and theoretical reflections on politicisation. The …