EVENT AND BOOK: Power and Authority in Internet Governance: Return of the State

Please join us to discuss theories, methodologies and case studies of internet governance. Digital Politics Research Group is delighted to host two contributors to the recently published book, Power and Authority in Internet Governance, Niels ten Oever and Ting Luo.

Niels ten Oever is a postdoctoral researcher with the ‘Making the hidden visible: Co-designing for public values in standards-making and governance’-project at the Media Studies department at the University of Amsterdam. He is also a research fellow with the Centre for Internet and Human Rights at the European University Viadrina, affiliated faculty with the Digital Democracy Institute at the Simon Fraser University, and an associated scholar with the Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas. His research focuses on how norms, such as human rights, get inscribed, resisted, and subverted in the Internet infrastructure through its transnational governance.

Ting Luo is Senior Lecturer of Political Communication at Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. She holds a PhD in Government from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2014). Her current research focuses on the impact of digital development on governance and political participation in authoritarian regimes. Her research interests include comparative politics, digital politics, elections and democratisation, and Chinese politics. Before joining MMU, she was a post-doctoral fellow at Leiden University and the Hertie School as part of a research project on digital China, funded by a Starting Grant of the European Research Council.

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