Uta Kohl - The Net and the Nation State: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Internet Governance

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Uta Kohl and Carrie Fox

Melissa Aronczyk is Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Branding the Nation: The Global Business of National Identity (2013) and the co-editor of Blowing Up the Brand: Critical Perspectives on Promotional Culture (2010).

Guy Berger is Director for Freedom of Expression and Media Development at UNESCO, where his work has included engagement with the global internet governance debate and overseeing a number of internet studies published by the Organization. He is former head of the School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa. Berger is the author of the South Africa country report for the sixty-nation study by the Open Society Institute, titled Mapping Digital Media Journalism, Democracy and Values, and has also published two books on ICT policy issues in African countries, as well as various articles on digital developments impacting the media. He has a PhD from Rhodes University.

Stanislav Budnitsky is a PhD Candidate in Communication at Carleton University. His research interests include global communication and contemporary nationalism as they are manifested in internet governance, nation branding, and international relations with particular attention to Russia, Central and Eastern Europe and post-Soviet space. Budnitsky has contributed to the USC Center for Public Diplomacy on Russian politics and media. Before doctoral studies, he worked as a writer and producer with major international and Russian media outlets.

Carrie Fox is a doctoral researcher at Aberystwyth University. Her research interests include the emergence of new states and the role of the state in creating international law.

Georg Glasze holds the chair of Cultural Geography at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nrnberg. His research focuses on newer approaches in social, cultural and political geography emphasizing the constitutedness of geographies and analysing how it is that specific spaces are (re)produced that is to say, delimited, institutionalised and technically and materially established. The aim is to uncover how specific social structures thereby become reproduced and how the constitution of spaces is consequently an element of specific relations of power. After a PhD in urban social geography on the global spreading and regional contextualisation of so-called gated communities with fieldwork in Lebanon and the United States, Georg has written a habilitation thesis in political geography on the discursive constitution of a world-spanning geocultural space Francophonia with fieldwork in France and Burkina Faso, as well as a postdoc fellowship at the Maison des Sciences de lHomme in Paris, in 2009. Currently he is working on the fundamental shift that digitization and the geoweb brings to cartographic (re)presentations and the wider field of geoinformation. He is a co-founder of the Erlangen Centre for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2014 he was Academic Visitor to the Oxford Internet Institute.

Christine Hurt is the Rex J. & Maureen E. Rawlinson Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University (BYU). Prior to joining the Faculty at BYU in 2014, Christine was Professor of Law and Director of the Business Law and Policy Program at the University of Illinois College of Law. She teaches in the areas of business organizations, securities regulation, entity taxation, corporate finance and torts, and her published research has focused on initial public offerings, fiduciary duties, securities regulation, gambling and business ethics. Prior to joining the Illinois law faculty, Christine taught law at the Marquette University Law School, University of Houston Law Center and Texas Tech University School of Law. After graduating from the University of Texas School of Law, she practiced in Houston, Texas, at Baker Botts LLP and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meager and Flom, LLP.