Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary digital data governance, highlighting the importance of cooperation across sectors and disciplines in order to adapt to a rapidly evolving technological landscape. Most of the theory around global digital data governance remains scattered and focused on specific actors, norms, processes, or disciplinary approaches. This book argues for a polycentric approach, allowing readers to consider the issue across multiple disciplines and scales.
Polycentrism, this book argues, provides a set of lenses that tie together the variety of actors, issues, and processes intertwined in digital data governance at subnational, national, regional, and global levels. Firstly, this approach uncovers the complex array of power centers and connections in digital data governance. Secondly, polycentric perspectives bridge disciplinary divides, challenging assumptions and drawing together a growing range of insights about the complexities of digit
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Polycentric Perspectives on Digital Data Governance PART I Perspectives 2. Nudging the Ostroms’ Vision of the Commons on Polycentric Governance into the Digital Environment 3. Internet Interoperability and Polycentric Attributes in Global Digital Data Ordering 4. The Challenges of Governance in a Datascape: Theorizing the Role of Non-extractive Methodologies in the 2030 Agenda 5. Grassroots Data Activism and Polycentric Governance: Perspectives from the Margins 6. Questions as a Device for Data Responsibility: Making Data Science Responsible by Formulating Questions in a Polycentric Way PART II Controversies 7. Decentralized but Coordinated: Probing Polycentricity in EU Data Protection Cross-border Enforcement 8. Trade Agreements and Cross-border Disinformation: Patchwork or Polycentric? 9. Trackers and Chasers: Governance Challenges in Disinformation Datafication 10. Privacy Governance from a Polycentric Perspective PART III Technologies 11. Global Data Governance by Internet Interconnection 12. The Distributions of Distributed Governance: Power, Instability and Complexity in Polycentric Data Ordering 13. Polycentric Theory Diffusion and AI Governance 14. Conclusion: The End of a Beginning
