This editors' introduction provides a short summary of the Snowden revelations and the paradoxical political and public responses to them. It further provides an overview of the current academic debate triggered by the Snowden case and the documents leaked by him and introduces the articles...

This editors’ introduction provides a short summary of the Snowden revelations and the paradoxical political and public responses to them. It further provides an overview of the current academic debate triggered by the Snowden case and the documents leaked by him and introduces the articles...

In France the government, the content sector and ISPs reached an agreement on an initiative to curb online copyright infringement on the Net in the so-called Olivennes Memorandum of Understanding of 23 November 2007. According to the MoU Internet users infringing on copyright laws receive two...

This editors' introduction provides a short summary of the Snowden revelations and the paradoxical political and public responses to them. It further provides an overview of the current academic debate triggered by the Snowden case and the documents leaked by him and introduces the articles...

This paper sets out a analytical framework to explore the relations between Internet actors, technical and software instruments of control and the regulatory environment supporting, questioning or regulating the use of these instruments. We introduce six abstract dimensions of control which are...

This special issue of info contains papers selected from the Seventh Annual Symposium of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet), which took place in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November 2012

In the emerging market of online video services, new media entrants and traditional gatekeepers are making efforts to reinvent the dominant modes of video supply and consumption while fighting for market power and customer lock-in. This article studies, through a number of U.S. and European...

In this paper, the principles of multi-sided platform theory and value network analysis are used in order to give a detailed picture of the financing and revenue sharing models present in the audiovisual media industry in Flanders. By means of expert interviews, we verify whether the...

Purpose: This paper aims to share the experience of a collaborative platform for social innovation (SI) in urban governance in Brussels (Belgium) and to formulate recommendations for future initiatives. Design/methodology/approach: The publicly funded collaborative platform “Brussels by...