Reimagining How to Govern the Internet (original) (raw)

Review of Robin Mansell, Imagining the Internet: Communication, Innovation, and Governance, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2012. Are we facing the danger of the Internet running out of all human control or, rather, are we facing the threat of an Internet panopticon? In Imagining the Internet, Robin Mansell argues that what we actually face is a “complexity paradox” where both dangers may be true. We are trapped, she argues, by an imaginative failure that is undermining our ability to mitigate either risk.