The Governance of Digital Technology, Big Data, and the Internet: New Roles and Responsibilities for Business. Issue 1 (January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Flyverbom, Mikkel; Deibert, Ronald; Matten, Dirk
• Other Names: Flyverbom Mikkel guest-editor.; Deibert Ronald guest-editor.; Matten Dirk guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Business and society. Volume 58:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 3
• Page End: 19
• Publication Date: 2019-01
• Subjects: big data -- data collection -- governance -- Internet -- Internet-industrial complex -- privacy; Industries -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Industrial sociology -- Periodicals; Business ethics -- Periodicals; 306.3
• DOI: 10.1177/0007650317727540
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0007-6503

Abstract

The importance of digital technologies for social and economic developments and a growing focus on data collection and privacy concerns have made the Internet a salient and visible issue in global politics. Recent developments have increased the awareness that the current approach of governments and business to the governance of the Internet and the adjacent technological spaces raises a host of ethical issues. The significance and challenges of the digital age have been further accentuated by a string of highly exposed cases of surveillance and a growing concern about issues of privacy and the power of this new industry. This special issue explores what some have referred to as the "Internet-industrial complex"—the intersections between business, states, and other actors in the shaping, development, and governance of the Internet.