期刊
TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY
卷 45, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2021.102144
关键词
Anthropology; Internet governance; Human rights; Advocacy; Ethnography; Civil society; Internet engineering task force; Human rights protocol considerations group; Standards and protocols
资金
- Ford Foundation [136179]
- Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and AI
This article presents an ethnographic analysis of the IETF's consideration of human rights values in the development of Internet networking standards and protocols. The study finds that the shared view about the non-prescriptive nature of technology in the IETF encourages participants to resist the inclusion of human rights values through standardization.
This article is an ethnographic analysis of recent efforts in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to consider human rights values in the development of Internet networking standards and protocols. By deploying qualitative methods-65 semi-structured interviews and two years of ethnography-I provide a detailed anthropological picture of how IETF participants understand technology, and what consequences their perspectives have for human rights advocacy. Internet governance scholars have recently debated the turn to the infrastructure and the role of human rights advocacy in the IETF. Bringing these insights together, I argue that the IETF's shared view about the non-prescriptive nature of technology encourages participants to resist the inclusion of human rights values through standardization. I identify this non-prescriptive view of technology as a barrier to addressing human rights through direct civil society engagement in standardization organizations. This view explains why standards rarely reflect human rights concerns as a contextually embedded and social issue more than a technological or communicative problem. My findings inform ongoing academic and policy debates about the role of human rights advocates in the IETF and provide an epistemic grounding for the recent turn to the infrastructure in Internet governance research.
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