Article: Im Parlament der möglichen Medienpraktiken. Anmerkungen zur Netzneutralitätskontroverse
Abstract
This essay traces some developments of the network neutrality debate in Germany. It focuses on the Enquête-Kommission ‘Internet and Digital Society’ in the German Bundestag (2010–2012), and activist actions to promote network neutrality as a public issue (2013). Furthermore, the underlying concept of network neutrality – the ‘end-to-end-principle’ – is located in its historical beginnings from 1984 onwards. To understand what network neutrality is about, both data from participant observation and Science and Technology Studies heuristics are put to use. I propose to understand this infrastructural controversy as part of a bigger shift in the history of digitally networked media – one that might be dissolving the general purpose character of the Internet, thus transforming it into networks of special purpose applications and platforms.
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Gießmann, Sebastian: Im Parlament der möglichen Medienpraktiken. Anmerkungen zur Netzneutralitätskontroverse. In: Mediale Kontrolle unter Beobachtung, Jg. 4 (2015), Nr. 1, S. 1-22. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/13787.
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author = {Gießmann, Sebastian},
title = {Im Parlament der möglichen Medienpraktiken. Anmerkungen zur Netzneutralitätskontroverse},
year = 2015,
doi = {10.25969/mediarep/13787},
volume = 4,
address = {Freiburg},
journal = {Mediale Kontrolle unter Beobachtung},
number = 1,
pages = {1--22},
}
author = {Gießmann, Sebastian},
title = {Im Parlament der möglichen Medienpraktiken. Anmerkungen zur Netzneutralitätskontroverse},
year = 2015,
doi = {10.25969/mediarep/13787},
volume = 4,
address = {Freiburg},
journal = {Mediale Kontrolle unter Beobachtung},
number = 1,
pages = {1--22},
}
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