Regulating Code: Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age (Information Revolution and Global Politics)

Brown, Ian; Marsden, Christopher T.; Drake, William J.; Iii, Ernest J. Wilso

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262018829 ISBN 13: 9780262018821

Publisher: MIT Press, 2013

Internet use has become ubiquitous in the past two decades, but governments, legislators, and their regulatory agencies have struggled to keep up with the rapidly changing Internet technologies and uses. In this groundbreaking collaboration, regulatory lawyer Christopher Marsden and computer scientist Ian Brown analyze the regulatory shaping of "code" -- the technological environment of the Intern...

Review:

Regulating Code provides an excellent contribution to the scholarly literature and an invaluable resource for policy-makers who need to understand the key elements of a forward-looking public policy agenda for the internet age, as well as for other stakeholders participating in the deliberative process.

--International Journal of Law and Information Technology

Overall, the book is a great addition to the literature (especially the geopolitics of information context) and is of value for a variety of audiences interested in this field, including students, academics, researchers, ICT theorists, policy makers, decision makers and IT managers.

--Online Information Review

About the Author:

Ian Brown is Professor of Information Security and Privacy at Oxford University's Oxford Internet Institute. He is the editor of the Research Handbook on Governance of the Internet. Christopher T. Marsden is Professor of Law at the University of Sussex school of Law. He is the author of Net Neutrality: Towards a Co-Regulatory Solution, Internet Co-Regulation, and three other books.