Actors to be distinguished: The case of NGOs as stakeholders of russian internet

Abstract

Internet governance is supposed to include a number of stakeholders with their own agenda. However, the mapping of stakeholders on the national level demonstrates that there can be different imaginaries of the internet held by one actor. The research is aimed at analyzing this diversity in historical context. We focus on one stakeholder which is the civic society or, in organizational terms, NGO. I correlate the change of the boundaries of this stakeholder with different performance of visions. I suggest to understand this stakeholder as the one which is performed by different organizations depending on the historical context. Russian context specifics also include the state as an actor that enables existence of other actors, including NGO.