Terje Rasmussen Livres

Focusing on the Internet as a battleground for techno-political disputes among diverse cultures, this work explores how varying interests and values have shaped its evolution. It analyzes the techno-political cultures and structural changes that diverge from traditional design principles. The dynamics of influential regulatory bodies like the RFC, IETF, ISOC, and the Internet Governance Forum are scrutinized, highlighting their struggles to address the emerging challenges posed by these structural transformations.

Focusing on political legitimacy, this book delves into the normative foundations of politics and the state. It emphasizes political realism as a broad theoretical approach, analyzing the contributions of key thinkers like Bernard Williams. Through this exploration, the text seeks to deepen the understanding of political theory and political sociology, providing insights into the complexities of legitimacy in governance.

Focusing on the intellectual history of sovereignty, the book explores its evolution as a crucial political tool for addressing the complexities of power dynamics. It delves into how the concept has been utilized throughout history to manage paradoxes inherent in governance and authority, highlighting its significance beyond mere definition.

This title was first published in 2001. An investigation of new forms of interaction and communication. The essays address theoretical contributions and insights which may assist us in the understanding of modern society inhabited by a wide range of new media.In order to answer questions on this subject, the text suggests a "structural hermeneutic" - a view on the public as agents embedded in their lifeworlds (rather than as consumers and receivers), who play a large part in reproducing structural and distanciated processes of meaning. The essays explore the implications of such daily practices as making a telephone call or sending an email, receiving money from a bank machine using a credit card, or retrieving information from a Web site. Each of these practices reproduce patterns of information and communication practices, which reshape communication processes in society. The essays examine the relationship between media change and social change, with particular emphasis on their contribution to social interaction in everyday life and in the reproduction of social systems.

The work addresses the Internet as a terrain of techno-political controversies between various cultures with their interests and values, which have influenced the development of the Internet since the start. It describes the techno-political cultures of the Internet and addresses some structural changes of the Internet that seem to deviate from some of the pragmatic ideas that hitherto have guided the design of the internet. It examines the dynamics of the RFC/IETF/ISOC and the recent Internet Governance Forum as regulatory instances that are expected to handle the challenges of the Internet. It is argued that the Internet faces some structural changes that cannot easily be met or resolved through the procedures of IETF/ISOC and Internet Governance.