CMNS 247 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Working Group On Internet Governance, Millennium Development Goals, Dynamic Dns

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 247
• Professor: Katherine Reilly

Document Summary

Negotiation of benefits versus obligations: obligations may be how much each party has to pay, benefits may include how much electricity each party gets. Fragile - must be constantly renewed, and offer clear benefits, or will fall apart: if parties feel like they aren"t getting a good deal with the arrangement, they will opt out. Liberalism - norms of global governance emerge through regime formation: see governance institutions where different actors form norms of global governance together; form consensus of goals and norms of behaviour and shared agendas. Cultural - global authority or legitimacy comes from dominant discourses (i. e. the discourse of neoliberalism: dominant discourse. Ip: breaks info into chunks (called packets) and tells them where to go: email is broken into chunks and then sent to the receiver. Dns: makes ip addresses readable": translates numbers into names, @sfu. ca, domain. Robust: non-linear, can re-route around breaks in the system.