Internet Monitor 2014: Reflections on the Digital World

Federico Perotto

The Internet Monitor project's second annual report—Internet Monitor 2014: Reflections on the Digital World—is a collection of roughly three dozen short contributions that highlight and discuss some of the most compelling events and trends in the digitally networked environment over the past year.

The report focuses on the interplay between technological platforms and policy; growing tensions between protecting personal privacy and using big data for social good; the implications of digital communications tools for public discourse and
collective action; and current debates around the future of Internet governance.

The report is here:

thenetmonitor.org/research/2014


Table of Contents


1. By the Numbers

2. Year in Review, Adrienne Debigare, Rebekah Heacock Jones, and Jiou Park

3. Platforms and Policy, Robert Faris and Rebekah Heacock Jones
SOPA Lives: Copyright's Existing Power to Block Websites and “Break the Internet,” Andrew Sellars
ABC v. Aereo, Innovation, and the Cloud, Christopher T. Bavitz
The Spanish Origins of the European “Right to be Forgotten”: The Mario Costeja and Les Alfacs Cases, Ana Azurmendi
Troubling Solution to a Real Problem, Jonathan Zittrain
Community Mesh Networks: The Tradeoff Between Privacy, Openness, and Security, Primavera De Filippi
Warrant Canaries Beyond the First Amendment, Jonathon W. Penney
Net Neutrality and Intermediary Liability in Argentina, Eduardo Bertoni
Sexting, Minors, and US Legislation: When Laws Intended to Protect Have Unintended Consequences, Monica Bulger
Devices, Design, and Digital News for India's Next Billion Internet Users, Hasit Shah
Dispute Resolution in the Sharing Economy, Ethan Katsh and Orna Rabinovich-Einy

4. Data and Privacy, Robert Faris and Rebekah Heacock Jones
Data Revolutions: Bottom-Up Participation or Top-Down Control?, Tim Davies
Everything is Data. Yes, Even Development, Malavika Jayaram
Mapping the Data Ecosystem, Sara M. Watson
Mapping the Next Frontier of Open Data: Corporate Data Sharing, Stefaan G. Verhulst and David Sangokoya
The Social and Technical Tribulations of Data Privacy in a Mobile Society, Adrienne Debigare and Nathan Freitas
The Future of the Internet—and How to Secure It, Andy Ellis
Data Protection and Privacy Law: Where Regulators Are King?, Neal Cohen
Toward a New Approach to Data Protection in the Big Data Era, Alessandro Mantelero
In the Age of the Web, What Does “Public” Mean?, David R. O'Brien
Code is Law, But Law is Increasingly Determining the Ethics of Code, Jonathon W. Penney
Dada Data and the Internet of Paternalistic Things, Sara M. Watson

5. Public Discourse, Robert Faris
Flower Speech: New Responses to Hatred Online, Susan Benesch
Facing Unthinkable Threats to Online Speech: Extreme Violence in Mexico and the Middle East, Ellery Biddle
The Use of the Internet to Enforce Religious Hegemony in Saudi Arabia, Helmi Noman
#BBUM and New Media Blacktivism, Clarence Wardell
How Activism and the Internet Can Change Policy, James Losey
Narratives of Conflict: What the 2014 Gaza War Can Tell Us About Discourse on the Internet, Sands Fish and Dalia Othman
Who Do We Trust When Talking About Digital News in Spain?, Charo Sádaba
Why Blogs Still Matter to the Young, Alison J. Head
The Podemos Phenomenon, Jordi Rodriguez Virgili

6. International Issues: Transnational Legal Tensions and Internet Governance, Robert Faris and Rebekah Heacock Jones
The Rise of Information Sovereignty, Shawn Powers
Boundless Courts and a Borderless Internet, Vivek Krishnamurthy
The Great Firewall Welcomes You!, Nathan Freitas
Toward an Enhanced Role of Academia in the Debates About the Future of Internet Governance—From Vision to Practice, Urs Gasser
Proliferation of “Internet Governance,” Rolf H. Weber

7. Looking Forward, Robert Faris