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Despite the fact that working with imaginaries is already widely acknowledged in Internet studies their use in Internet policy studies still remains limited. In this paper I approach studying Internet governance from the perspective of “sociotechnical imaginaries”. I argue that this concept can prove to be especially useful in studying authoritarian policy-settings and elucidate relationship between stakeholders in the field of Internet governance.
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Muravyov, D. (2019). Governing Through Imagination: Approaching Internet Governance in Authoritarian Contexts. In: Bodrunova, S., et al. Internet Science. INSCI 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11551. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17705-8_20
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