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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hello!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hope you had a good discussion, looking forward to joining again on Thursday!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The three books I’d be very keen on is China’s Telecommunication Revolution (I like books based on fieldwork), Duress (because it personally sounds like a tough topic
to address to gain new perspectives), or Technologies of Speculation (because of the AI hype).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">A book you may all have read already that I’ve had doubts about reading is Zuboff’s Surveillance Capitalism. I’ll be honest that when the book is mentioned, the content
isn’t what strikes me, but the manner in which the book(‘s content) is used in discussion. You will hear her name mentioned by politicians, but I’ve found that critics (such as
<a href="https://thebaffler.com/latest/capitalisms-new-clothes-morozov">Morozov</a>) of the book are really interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Ms Nadia Tjahja</span></b><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">United Nations University – CRIS | Digital Governance Cluster | PhD Fellow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.cris.unu.edu/" target="_blank" title="http://www.cris.unu.edu/"><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0078D4">www.cris.unu.edu</span></a><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Brussels School of Governance | PhD Researcher<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Communications Chair, Global Internet Governance Academic Network (</span><a href="https://www.giga-net.org/" target="_blank" title="https://www.giga-net.org/"><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">GigaNet</span></a><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">) <br>
YOUthDIG Coordinator, European Dialogue on Internet Governance (</span><a href="https://www.eurodig.org/" target="_blank" title="https://www.eurodig.org/"><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">EuroDIG)</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Recent publications</span></u><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple"><br>
</span></u><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Tjahja, N., Meyer, T., Shahin, J.,
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">(</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">2022</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">)</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">. Who do you think you are?
Individual stakeholder identification and mobility at the Internet Governance Forum.
<i>Telecommunications Policy</i></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">,</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue""> 46</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">(10<i>)</i></span><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">,</span></i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">
102410. </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2022.102410"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#DCA10D">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2022.102410</span></a><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Tjahja, N., Meyer, T., & Shahin, J. (2021). What is civil society and who represents civil society at the IGF? An analysis of civil society typologies in internet governance. <i>Telecommunications
Policy</i>, <i>45</i>(6), 102141. doi:</span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2021.102141" title="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2021.102141"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#DCA10D">10.1016/j.telpol.2021.102141</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Infrastructure-readinggroup <infrastructure-readinggroup-bounces@criticalinfralab.net> on behalf of Niels ten Oever <mail@nielstenoever.net><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, 2 May 2023 at 10:15<br>
<b>To: </b>infrastructure-readinggroup@criticalinfralab.net <infrastructure-readinggroup@criticalinfralab.net><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Infrastructure-readinggroup] book selection time!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi all,<br>
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Thanks so much for your active attendance in the meet-up with Prof. Dr. DeSouza. I wanted to jumpstart the discussion on next readings. I have a couple of directions I would be interested in:<br>
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1. We're living in a time in which technology and infrastructure policy is picking up a lot of steam, so perhaps we should read about how this turned out in previous times and the interrelation with imperialism:<br>
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- The Closed World // Paul Edwards<br>
- Telegraphic Imperialism // Deep Kanta Lahiri Choudhury<br>
- China's Telecommunication Revolution // Eric Harwit<br>
- The Computerization of Society // Simon Nora and Alain Minc<br>
- Duress // Ann Laura Stoler<br>
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2. Another option is digging deeper into human rights and how they are(n't) useful for equitable infrastructure governance:<br>
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- Human Rights in an Unequal World // Samuel Moyn<br>
- The Morals of the Market // Jessica Whyte<br>
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3. It seems the AI hype is not going away anytime soon (some are arguing it is going to be an 'infrastructural technology', meaning it will be integrating into everything) so perhaps we should dig in a bit?<br>
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- Resisting AI // Dan McQuillan<br>
- Technologies of Speculation // Sun-Ha Hong<br>
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These are all books I already own (sorry, not sorry), so my bias should be obvious. Feel free to fiercely argue for or against any of these books, or add new books or categories.<br>
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Best,<br>
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Niels<br>
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Niels ten Oever, PhD<br>
Co-Principal Investigator - critical infrastructure lab - University of Amsterdam<br>
Assistant Professor - Department of European Studies - University of Amsterdam<br>
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