The Digital Agenda Committee of the Bundestag was a remarkable institutional change in Germany. It represents the first …-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 …

This essay proposes an analytical approach that conceptualises internet policy as a field of struggle which emerges … shaped internet policy. Drawing on interviews and document analysis, the essay illustrates the proposed research approach via … three selected examples which demonstrate how international discourses materialised in internet-related organisational …