Andrea Calderaro
Andrea Calderaro (PhD) is Director of the Centre for Internet and Global Politics (CIGP), and a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University. His research centres on Internet and Global Politics, with a particular focus on Internet Governance, Cybersecurity and conflict transformations, telecom policy development, ICTs for Development, Internet and Human Rights, and the role of the EU in the global internet policy debate.
He serves as Editor of the “Digital Technologies and Global Politics” Book Series at Rowman&Littlefield, as Chair of the ECPR Internet & Politics standing group, a member of the Global Internet Policy Observatory’s Advisory Group at the European Commission, a member of the Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council board at the OECD, and as a regular consultant of the European Commission, European Parliament, House of Lords (UK), Italian Parliament.
He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Internet & Human Rights (CIHR) at European University Viadrina, and affiliated to the Internet Policy Observatory at the Annenberg School for Communication / UPenn.
Previously, he has been Lecturer at the University La Sapienza of Rome, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Internet and Society at Humboldt University, Research Associate at the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom/European University Institute, Visiting Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, and directed the “ICTs for the Global Governance of Peace and Security” Project at the University of Oslo.
Address: Cardiff University
School of Law and Politics
CF103AX - Cardiff
United Kingdom
He serves as Editor of the “Digital Technologies and Global Politics” Book Series at Rowman&Littlefield, as Chair of the ECPR Internet & Politics standing group, a member of the Global Internet Policy Observatory’s Advisory Group at the European Commission, a member of the Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council board at the OECD, and as a regular consultant of the European Commission, European Parliament, House of Lords (UK), Italian Parliament.
He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Internet & Human Rights (CIHR) at European University Viadrina, and affiliated to the Internet Policy Observatory at the Annenberg School for Communication / UPenn.
Previously, he has been Lecturer at the University La Sapienza of Rome, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Internet and Society at Humboldt University, Research Associate at the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom/European University Institute, Visiting Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, and directed the “ICTs for the Global Governance of Peace and Security” Project at the University of Oslo.
Address: Cardiff University
School of Law and Politics
CF103AX - Cardiff
United Kingdom
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In addition to these recent instances of contentious politics, advocacy and grassroots groups are increasingly using online technologies to empower local communities and direct change in the policies that most affect them. And issues at the heart of online governance, like Internet regulation, are motivating many collective efforts directed to shaping file-sharing policies, free software, or digital communication rights.
This special issue includes articles reporting novel empirical research on how online collective action drives policy change, in any of its ramifications. This includes topics such as:
The coordination of protests and mobilisations using online technologies, and their impact on public opinion and policy making.
The mechanisms through which online collective action grows and diffuses, and how or when they trigger a policy reaction.
The impact of online activity on issue salience, and the responsiveness of policy makers.
The interplay between online collective action and the offline policy cycle, or how policy makers deal with new sources of instability and disruption."
Articles, Book Chapters, Papers by Andrea Calderaro
telecommunication infrastructures and related policy frameworks that involves both infrastructural and
governance challenges. By focusing on the various stages of the connectivity building plan over the first 3 years
since its launch in 2012, this paper explores how Myanmar is developing its internet policy capacity building, in
the framework of the broader transnational internet governance debate. In particular, this paper addresses
whether and how the new national telecom infrastructure and the related governance framework has been
designed and implemented in respect of digital rights, notably freedom of expression and right of privacy. By
process tracing the initiatives shaping the on-going connectivity building plan, the paper discusses the role of
actors involved in this process, including civil society organizations, private companies, and foreign
governments; whether we are witnessing any bottom up forms of internet governance practices; opportunities
and eventual threats for citizens related to the implementation this connectivity plan; and finally, it tests and
proposes a novel empirically driven theoretical framework aiming at expanding our understanding on the
diffusion of global internet governance norms in developing connectivity in post-authoritarian contexts.
today. The first part investigates how the Digital Divide can be measured, framing the question and some of the trends foreseen by scholars on
the phenomenon. The second part provides the current status of the Digital Divide, mapping the distribution of the usage of the Internet
worldwide with some national indicators and measuring how economic factors cause some of the digital inequalities. The chapter then maps the
worldwide unequal distribution of some of the infrastructure of the Internet. By comparing the different measures of the Digital Divide, the
chapter finally provides some conclusions on the expectations regarding the trend of the phenomenon."
investigate the issue, scholars have paid attention to how transnational social movements use new information
technologies. This has been done mainly exploring the use of the World Wide Web (WWW). However, new
political spaces do not take place just on the WWW, and by consequence, research in this field cannot solely carry out Web analysis to explore the role played by the Internet in creating political debate. In looking at other areas of the Internet to understand the creation of new political space, other analytical approaches need
to be adopted. The Internet also includes tools other than the WWW, such as eMailing Lists, collaborative
on-line software, Peer-to-Peer Networks, Instant Messaging tools, and so forth. This paper explores the role that eMailing Lists play in creating new political spaces. To explore if and how this happens, I illustrate this crucial point with an analysis of the use of eMailing Lists by social movements. The case I will use is that of the organization of the protest during the G8 Summit held in Genoa in July 2001.
In addition to these recent instances of contentious politics, advocacy and grassroots groups are increasingly using online technologies to empower local communities and direct change in the policies that most affect them. And issues at the heart of online governance, like Internet regulation, are motivating many collective efforts directed to shaping file-sharing policies, free software, or digital communication rights.
This special issue includes articles reporting novel empirical research on how online collective action drives policy change, in any of its ramifications. This includes topics such as:
The coordination of protests and mobilisations using online technologies, and their impact on public opinion and policy making.
The mechanisms through which online collective action grows and diffuses, and how or when they trigger a policy reaction.
The impact of online activity on issue salience, and the responsiveness of policy makers.
The interplay between online collective action and the offline policy cycle, or how policy makers deal with new sources of instability and disruption."
telecommunication infrastructures and related policy frameworks that involves both infrastructural and
governance challenges. By focusing on the various stages of the connectivity building plan over the first 3 years
since its launch in 2012, this paper explores how Myanmar is developing its internet policy capacity building, in
the framework of the broader transnational internet governance debate. In particular, this paper addresses
whether and how the new national telecom infrastructure and the related governance framework has been
designed and implemented in respect of digital rights, notably freedom of expression and right of privacy. By
process tracing the initiatives shaping the on-going connectivity building plan, the paper discusses the role of
actors involved in this process, including civil society organizations, private companies, and foreign
governments; whether we are witnessing any bottom up forms of internet governance practices; opportunities
and eventual threats for citizens related to the implementation this connectivity plan; and finally, it tests and
proposes a novel empirically driven theoretical framework aiming at expanding our understanding on the
diffusion of global internet governance norms in developing connectivity in post-authoritarian contexts.
today. The first part investigates how the Digital Divide can be measured, framing the question and some of the trends foreseen by scholars on
the phenomenon. The second part provides the current status of the Digital Divide, mapping the distribution of the usage of the Internet
worldwide with some national indicators and measuring how economic factors cause some of the digital inequalities. The chapter then maps the
worldwide unequal distribution of some of the infrastructure of the Internet. By comparing the different measures of the Digital Divide, the
chapter finally provides some conclusions on the expectations regarding the trend of the phenomenon."
investigate the issue, scholars have paid attention to how transnational social movements use new information
technologies. This has been done mainly exploring the use of the World Wide Web (WWW). However, new
political spaces do not take place just on the WWW, and by consequence, research in this field cannot solely carry out Web analysis to explore the role played by the Internet in creating political debate. In looking at other areas of the Internet to understand the creation of new political space, other analytical approaches need
to be adopted. The Internet also includes tools other than the WWW, such as eMailing Lists, collaborative
on-line software, Peer-to-Peer Networks, Instant Messaging tools, and so forth. This paper explores the role that eMailing Lists play in creating new political spaces. To explore if and how this happens, I illustrate this crucial point with an analysis of the use of eMailing Lists by social movements. The case I will use is that of the organization of the protest during the G8 Summit held in Genoa in July 2001.