Hi all, just in-time for the run-up towards AoIR's Early Bird Deadline: The program for our pre-conf Workshop "Internet Rules, But How?" is online, feat. a keynote by Laura DeNardis and 4 sessions on STS and Internet Policy and Governance, theories, methods, black boxes and much more. Don't forget to tick the right box when registering for AoIR. Please find the full program below or here: http://www.hiig.de/events/pre-aoir-the-internet-rules-but-how/. Best, Christian Katzenbach -- Christian Katzenbach Head of Research Group Internet Policy & Governance Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin katzenbach@hiig.de http://www.hiig.de/en/research/internet-policy-and-governance-2/ PGP Key: http://data.katzenbach.info/publickey-hiig.asc Recent papers: - Katzenbach, C., Herweg, S., & van Roessel, L. (2016). Copies, Clones and Genre Building. Discourses on Imitation and Innovation in Digital Games. International Journal of Communication, 10, 838-859. http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/4802/1567 - Hofmann, J., Katzenbach, C. & Gollatz, K. (2016). Between coordination and regulation: Finding the governance in Internet governance. New Media & Society, http://nms.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/03/30/1461444816639975 ## PRE-CONFRERENCE WORKSHOP TO THE AOIR 2016 The Internet Rules, But How? A Science and Technology Studies (STS) Take on Doing Internet Governance 05 Oct 2016 | 9 am – 5.30 pm | HU Berlin, Dorotheenstr. 24, Berlin-Mitte This pre-conference Workshop is part of the AoIR conference. Over the last decade, the regulation and governance of the Internet at the national and international level have attracted growing attention by policy-makers and researchers. This is particularly the case in post-Snowden times which increased distrust of formal government institutions and their ‘dangerous liaisons’ with the private sector. Accordingly, observing and researching governing processes as they relate to the Internet is both timely and important. Traditionally, researchers and practitioners in Internet governance (IG) focused on new institutions established to discuss and negotiate the technical coordination of the Internet or related policies. Recently, authors have criticized this institutional focus, and perspectives from Science and Technology Studies (STS) suggest to rethink and substantiate questions of ordering and governing the net. In this view, the ‘doing’ of IG more broadly consists in practices and controversies of the design, regulation, and use of material infrastructures, as well as digital uses and practices. This preconference workshop seeks to nurture the growing interest in researching and observing IG from STS-informed perspectives. More broadly, the workshop aims to facilitate a discussion and an exchange of perspectives about the intertwined roles of design, infrastructures, and informal communities of practice in IG. This workshop is part of a broader effort of advancing an STS-informed conversation on Internet governance: it builds on the panel on STS perspectives on IG that took place during AoIR 2015 in Phoenix and a forthcoming special issue of the Internet Policy Review (to be published in early September 2016). 9:00 Welcome Keynote Laura De Nardis 9:45 Session I. STS and Theoretical Perspectives on Internet Governance Moderator: Dmitry Epstein • Doing Internet Governance: Constructing Normative Structures inside and outside Intermediary Organisations | Tobias Mast, Markus Oermann and Wolfgang Schulz • Situated Governance: On Topological Limits to Internet Governance | Ashwin Mathew • Designing a Public Intervention: Towards a Sociotechnical Approach to Web Governance | Faranak Hardcastle, Susan Halford and L. Moreau • Building an Authoritarian Counter‐Hegemony? Iran in the Global Debate about Internet Governance | Marcus Michaelsen 11:15 Coffee Break 11:30 Session II. Controversies: Unpacking Internet Governance Moderator: Julia Pohle • Privacy Concerns in the Domain Name System | Samantha Bradshaw and Laura DeNardis • SNS Infrastructure as an Actor | Inbar Michelzon Drori • Critical infrastructure due diligence – ISPs, security and privacy (tbc) | Joanna Kulesza • Migrating Servers, Elusive Users: Reconfigurations of the Russian Internet in the Post-Snowden Era | Ksenia Ermoshina and Francesca Musiani 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Session III. Round table: Doing STS-informed Internet Governance ResearchModerator: Francesca Musiani • Internet Policy as a Minority Rights Issue | Andrea Hackl • Search engine imaginary. Visions and values in the co-production of search technology and Europe | Astrid Mager • Human rights and internet infrastructure. Sociotechnical imaginaries and grassroots ordering in internet governance | Stefania Milan and Niels ten Oever • Opening the black box of discursive production in multistakeholder policy-making | Julia Pohle 15:30 Coffee Break 16:00 Round table: Opening the Black Boxes of Today’s Internet (Governance) Moderator: Christian KatzenbachParticipants: • Laura DeNardis (tbc), • Jeanette Hofmann, • Tarleton Gillespie (tbc), • Stéphane Couture, • Dmitry Epstein Organiser: Dmitry Epstein (University of Illinois, Chicago), Christian Katzenbach (Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin), Francesca Musiani (ISCC – CNRS/Paris-Sorbonne/UPMC Paris), Julia Pohle (WZB Berlin Social Science Center) You can only take part in the pre-conference workshop as a participant of the AoIR conference. When signing up for the conference you have the option to register for this workshop. Register now for AoIR 2016: http://members.aoir.org/event-2243123