Reti di informazione, governance di Internet e innovazione nella politica mondiale

Abstract

World politics is currently facing challenges imposed by globalization processes to the legitimacy of policy actors and to the effectiveness of policy-making. Building on a socio-political approach to governance and focusing on global information policies, this chapter aims at developing a better understanding of the possibility of change in world politics, by critically analysing the reality and relevance of “multi-stakeholder” practices in a supra-national and trans-national context. Looking at Internet Governance debates in recent years, the authors reconstruct networks of interaction connecting actors in the virtual space, analyzing the extent to which technological, as well as process-oriented and cognitive innovation, shape actors’ orientations and the structures within which they interact in the specific context of Internet Governance.