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Internet Governance and the Global South

Demand for a New Framework

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  • © 2014

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  1. Abu Bhuiyan

    1. University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business (GMPB)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Global South and Supranational Internet Policymaking

    • Abu Bhuiyan
    Pages 1-19

  3. From UNESCO to ICANN: Rise of a New Model of Global Communication Policymaking

    • Abu Bhuiyan
    Pages 20-38

  4. Uniqueness of ICANN

    • Abu Bhuiyan
    Pages 39-50

  5. Resistance to the ICANN Model of Internet Governance

    • Abu Bhuiyan
    Pages 51-72

  6. Bridging Digital Divide: Neoliberal Means with State Control(?)

    • Abu Bhuiyan
    Pages 73-96

  7. Multilingualism: Does It Legitimize the ICANN Model?

    • Abu Bhuiyan
    Pages 97-112

  8. Intellectual Property Rights on the Internet: The Global South’s Struggle for a Lenient Regime

    • Abu Bhuiyan
    Pages 113-135

  9. Cybersecurity and States: Same Bed, Different Nightmares

    • Abu Bhuiyan
    Pages 136-155

  10. New Multilateralism for Internet Policymaking

    • Abu Bhuiyan
    Pages 156-168

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 169-222
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About this book

A welcome addition to Palgrave's Global Media Policy and Business series, Internet Governance and the Global South documents the role of the global south in Internet policymaking and challenges the globalization theories that declared the death of the state in global decision-making. Abu Bhuiyan argues that the global Internet politics is primarily a conflict between the states - the United States of America and the states of the global south - because the former controls Internet policymaking. The states of the global south have been both oppositional and acquiescing to the sponsored policies of the United States on Internet issues such as digital divide, multilingualism, intellectual property rights and cyber security. They do not oppose the neoliberal underpinnings of the policies promoted by the United States, but ask for an international framework to govern the Internet so that they can work as equal partners in setting norms for the global Internet.

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  • University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Abu Bhuiyan

About the author

Professor Abu J M S A Bhuiyan is the founder and Chair of the Department of Television and Film Studies at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Before founding the department, he taught at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada, and the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at the University of Dhaka.

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