Speakers
Dr
Signe Sophus Lai
(Digital Infrastructure Think Tank)Dr
Sofie Flensburg
(Digital Infrastructure Think Tank)
Description
This talk discusses the conditions and capacities for carrying out studies of the political economy of the internet using publicly available data repositories – often developed for the market rather than research purposes. Building a comparative ownership analysis of internet infrastructures in the largest Nordic welfare states, we present methodological possibilities and limitations, as well as different technical workarounds to compensate for proprietary nature of many contemporary data sources. This opens up for a discussion of how to enhance transparency and reliable knowledge informing democratic debates about the underlying control mechanism in digital societies.
Primary authors
Dr
Signe Sophus Lai
(Digital Infrastructure Think Tank)
Dr
Sofie Flensburg
(Digital Infrastructure Think Tank)
