Governing Data Packets and the Web: A Socio-Legal Narratology of Net Neutrality Debates in the U.S., 2017–2020

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dc.contributor.advisorKrikorian, Jacqueline D.
dc.contributor.authorTaylor, Palmer James Charles
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T21:18:17Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T21:18:17Z
dc.date.copyright2024-03-28
dc.date.issued2024-07-18
dc.date.updated2024-07-18T21:18:16Z
dc.degree.disciplineSocio-Legal Studies
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation analyzes debates on net neutrality (i.e., principles that encourage Internet Service Providers to refrain from blocking, throttling, and prioritizing data packets) in light of the 2017 Restoring Internet Freedom Order over the period 2017–2020. The proposal to repeal net neutrality was considered an abrupt shift in policy from efforts by previous FCCs to sustain net neutrality principles. I conduct a qualitative content analysis by collecting, coding, categorizing, and thematizing five data sources in NVivo (qualitative data analysis software) to draw out socio-legal narratives and stories. The five data sources include the 2017 Order, the FCC’s Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS) attachment files, videos from YouTube, media reports, and law documents. The thematic findings organized by economics, technology, politics, and law and regulation are explored through a narrative framework comprised of multiple narrative and story threads to help make sense of the debates. The first research aim identifies and describes net neutrality in light of socio-legal narratives and stories through the construction and representation of ideas, concepts, issues, and arguments related to the governance of data packets and the Web. The second research aim examines how formal law and regulation frameworks (i.e., empirical and normative – ‘according to law and regulation as they are and ought to be’) and non-normative frameworks (i.e., technological management and solutions – ‘according to what law and regulation can and cannot do’) govern data packets and the Web. The third research aim explores how formal law and regulation and non-normative frameworks reflect U.S. norms, values, and rights that support the expansion of U.S. economic power. The dissertation contributes to the scholarship on socio-legal narratives, law and regulation, and the substantive issue of net neutrality in the U.S.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/42132
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectSociology
dc.subjectLaw
dc.subjectWeb studies
dc.subject.keywords5G
dc.subject.keywordsPai, Ajit
dc.subject.keywordsAlgorithm
dc.subject.keywordsAntitrust
dc.subject.keywordsApplication provider
dc.subject.keywordsAuthority
dc.subject.keywordsBlocking
dc.subject.keywordsBright-line rule
dc.subject.keywordsBroadband
dc.subject.keywordsBroadband internet access service
dc.subject.keywordsCalinnovates
dc.subject.keywordsCoherentist
dc.subject.keywordsCommunication
dc.subject.keywordsConsumer protection
dc.subject.keywordsContent development network
dc.subject.keywordsContent provider
dc.subject.keywordsCourt
dc.subject.keywordsData
dc.subject.keywordsData packet
dc.subject.keywordsData packet inspection
dc.subject.keywordsDigital divide
dc.subject.keywordsDiscourse
dc.subject.keywordsDiscrimination
dc.subject.keywordsDiscursive
dc.subject.keywordsECFS
dc.subject.keywordsEconomics
dc.subject.keywordsElectronic comment filing system
dc.subject.keywordsEquality
dc.subject.keywordsFCC
dc.subject.keywordsFree speech
dc.subject.keywordsFTC
dc.subject.keywordsGatekeeper
dc.subject.keywordsGovernment
dc.subject.keywordsHuawei
dc.subject.keywordsInformation service
dc.subject.keywordsInnovation commons
dc.subject.keywordsInternet
dc.subject.keywordsInternet governance
dc.subject.keywordsInternet protocol
dc.subject.keywordsInternet service provider
dc.subject.keywordsInterstate
dc.subject.keywordsIntrastate
dc.subject.keywordsJohn Oliver
dc.subject.keywordsLaw
dc.subject.keywordsLaw 1.0
dc.subject.keywordsLaw 2.0
dc.subject.keywordsLaw 3.0
dc.subject.keywordsLegislation
dc.subject.keywordsLight-touch regulation
dc.subject.keywordsMarket competition
dc.subject.keywordsMendocino Complex wildfire
dc.subject.keywordsMetagovernance
dc.subject.keywordsMonopoly
dc.subject.keywordsNarrative
dc.subject.keywordsNarratology
dc.subject.keywordsNVivo
dc.subject.keywordsOpenness
dc.subject.keywordsOwnership
dc.subject.keywordsPacket switching network
dc.subject.keywordsPaid prioritization
dc.subject.keywordsPolicy
dc.subject.keywordsPolitics
dc.subject.keywordsPower
dc.subject.keywordsProtocol
dc.subject.keywordsQualitative content analysis
dc.subject.keywordsQuality of service
dc.subject.keywordsRedlining
dc.subject.keywordsRegulation
dc.subject.keywordsRegulatory-instrumentalist
dc.subject.keywordsRestoring internet freedom order
dc.subject.keywordsSocio-legal
dc.subject.keywordsSociology of law
dc.subject.keywordsState jurisdiction
dc.subject.keywordsStory
dc.subject.keywordsTechno-regulation
dc.subject.keywordsTechnocrat
dc.subject.keywordsTechnology
dc.subject.keywordsTelecommunication
dc.subject.keywordsTelecommunication service
dc.subject.keywordsTerms of service agreement
dc.subject.keywordsThrottling
dc.subject.keywordsTitle I
dc.subject.keywordsTitle II
dc.subject.keywordsTransparency
dc.subject.keywordsU.S. economic power
dc.subject.keywordsWalled garden
dc.subject.keywordsWeb-scraping
dc.subject.keywordsWeb
dc.subject.keywordsWeber
dc.titleGoverning Data Packets and the Web: A Socio-Legal Narratology of Net Neutrality Debates in the U.S., 2017–2020
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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