BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Governance of and by the infrastructure: The case of Internet and other digital services DTSTART:20220427T100000 DTEND:20220427T120000 DTSTAMP:20260916T085830Z UID:cedbf9d1329a0fe6c6d236adb9548fd8dedddfee2adc119fb78a8262 CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars DESCRIPTION:Francesca Musiani\, Léa Stiefel\nThe College of Humanities an d the Laboratory for the History of Science and Technology are pleased to invite you to the seventh session of Pierre Mounier’s monthly seminar on Governing Digital Knowledge Infrastructures.\n\nWed. 27 April. 2022\, 10a m-12pm\, EPFL room INN 128 (registration compulsory) and Online (see belo w)\n\nGovernance of and by the infrastructure: The case of Internet and ot her digital services\n\nInternet governance was studied for a long time as an example of the “global” and “multistakeholder” governance of a technical infrastructure. The case of the Internet Corporation for Assign ed Names and Numbers (ICANN)\, for example\, has been extensively studied from many perspectives\, among which its original dependence on the U.S. D epartment of Commerce\, the influence of private providers in its governan ce\, or the inclusion of “at large” users in its board of directors. C onsequently\, scholars have frequently discussed whether the models of Int ernet governance are to be situated in the continuation or as a departure from the governance of traditional media and means of communication. The b alance between\, on the one hand\, the use of IP conflict resolution model s and\, on the other hand\, the predominance of decision-making processes based on rough consensus at the technical levels is punctually disturbed b y the interventions of governments pursuing a strategic agenda. This dynam ic has transformed Internet governance into a fascinating object of study at the crossroads of private interests\, the preservation of a public good \, and community involvement.\n    More recently\, however\, scholars have been focusing on how the Internet as a technical infrastructure\, wit h its distributed architecture\, governs human interactions and the circul ation of information. Beyond the governance of infrastructure\, this issue of the governance by infrastructure is linked with–albeit not reducible to–the topic of algorithmic governance theorized by Rouvroy et al. As e xplained by De Nardis and Musiani\, this topic addresses three main issues : the geopolitical balance of power between nations\, the fight against pi racy\, and the privacy issue. From this new perspective\, the Internet can again be taken as an example–amongst many others–of an infrastructure governing the activities it supports through its design\, architecture\, and algorithms. This case study may provide interesting insight into the t ensions at the heart of knowledge infrastructures considered as socio-tech nical frameworks at large.\n    For this session\, we invite two schol ars to discuss with us: \n\nFrancesca Musiani is researcher at CNRS  and deputy director of the CNRS Center for Internet and Society that she co-f ounded with Melanie Dulong de Rosnay in 2019. A specialist of distributed technical architectures\, she co-edited with Cogburn\, DeNardis and Levins on The Turn to Infrastructure in Internet Governance in 2016.\n\nLéa Stie fel is a graduate assistant at the Sciences and Technologies Studies Labor atory (STS Lab\, SSP-UNIL). Léa Stiefel works on data sharing systems and governance by their technical architectures. She recently published with Alain Sandoz “Une plateforme en pair-à-pair pour l’échange de donné es: l’émergence d’un commun numérique” in Terminal 130. 2021\; wit h Dominique Vinck “Rompre avec la centralisation pour partager des donn ées” in Vinck Dominique\, Goulet Frédéric (eds.) Faire sans\, faire a vec moins. L’innovation face aux nouveaux défis contemporains\, Presses des Mines. 2022\; and soon to be published “Les données du problème. Une plateforme numérique inadaptée à l’agriculture suisse” in Etude s Rurales 209. 2022. In March 2022\, she organized with James Besse\, of t he Institute for the Study of Science\, Technology and Innovation at the U niversity of Edinburgh\, a workshop at the University of Lausanne on Gover nance by Infrastructure\, gathering a wide array of over 25 case studies t hat will be useful for this session of our seminar.\n\nWed. 27 April. 2022 \, 10am-12pm\nHybrid setup: EPFL\, INN 128 (registration compulsory here) and online (email simon.dumasprimbault@epfl.ch to get the Zoom link)\n\n Readings:\n\n DeNardis\, Laura\, et Francesca Musiani. « Governance by In frastructure: Introduction\, “The Turn to Infrastructure in Internet Gov ernance ». SSRN Scholarly Paper. Rochester\, NY: Social Science Research Network\, 15 septembre 2014. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2730689.\n Nains sans géants : Architecture décentralisée et services Internet. Scien ces sociales. Paris: Presses des Mines\, 2015. http://books.openedition.or g/pressesmines/1853 .\n Musiani\, Francesca. « 14. Gouvernance ». In Ab écédaire des architectures distribuées\, édité par Cécile Méadel et Francesca Musiani\, 101-5. i3. Paris: Presses des Mines\, 2016. http://bo oks.openedition.org/pressesmines/2119. \n Workshop Governance By Infrastr ucture 17th – 18th March 2022 – University of Lausanne https://wp.unil .ch/workshopgbi/ \n Julien Rossi\, Francesca Musiani et Lucien Castex\, « La gouvernance d’Internet\, entre infrastructures et espaces socio-po litiques : apports de la recherche »\, Terminal [En ligne]\, 132-133 | 20 22\, mis en ligne le 01 février 2022\, consulté le 01 avril 2022. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/terminal/8210 \; DOI : https://doi.org/10. 4000/terminal.8210 \n LOCATION:INN 128 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==INN%20128 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR