'Mikkel Flyverbom's The Power of Networks is a timely and important
contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary study of cyberspace
politics. In an exceptionally well written and researched book,
Flyverbom employs a form of ethnographic method to uncover the
grounded practices that inform the many 'hybrid forums' and
'entangled authorities' of Internet governance. The book will be of
interest to those who want a deeper understanding of the complexity
and nuance of the many social forces shaping global cyberspace
today.' Ronald J. Deibert, University of Toronto, Canada'Flyverbom
presents an original ethnography of the political ordering
processes of the digital revolution. He lays bare the relational
practices within hybrid global forums in which multiple actors are
mobilized to participate, contest, and dialogue. The book makes an
important contribution to emergent global politics governing
technologies, networks, meanings, and people within the United
Nations system.' J.P. Singh, Georgetown University, US With an
ever-growing number of users, the Internet is central to the
processes of globalization, cultural formations, social encounters
and economic development. These aside, it is also fast becoming an
important political domain. Struggles over disclosure, access and
governance are only the most visible signs that the Internet is
quickly becoming a site of fierce political conflict involving
states, technical groups, business and civil society. As the debate
over the global politics of the Internet intensifies, this book
will be a valuable guide to anyone seeking to understand the
emergence, organization and shape of this new issue. In this vivid
study, Mikkel Flyverbom captures how questions about the digital
divide and the information revolution, dialogues with stakeholders,
and networked forms of organization have become key features of the
global politics of the Internet. Tracing the making and
stabilization of this transnational issue in and around the United
Nations over almost a decade, this book demonstrates how
multi-stakeholder networks make new political domains accessible
and unsettle established ways of organizing transnational
governance. The Power of Networks offers a rich account of the
practices and effects of organizing global politics and governance
through dialogues and collaborations among governments, business
and societies the world over. Offering a novel analytical
vocabulary for the study of ordering, governance and organization
in global politics, and its relationship to the growth of the
Internet, this innovative ethnographic study of hybrid
organizations and entangled forms of power in global politics shows
how insights from actor-network theory and the Foucauldian
governmentality literature can reinvigorate studies of
transnational governance and organizational processes. It will
appeal to anyone interested in emergent network issues in global
politics, as well as practitioners and researchers focusing on
multi-stakeholder processes, and students and scholars searching
for a fresh perspective on organization, power and global politics.
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