Net Neutrality: Anatomy of a Controversy

Abstract

This volume focuses on the ongoing accomplishments entailed in the mutual making of infrastructures and publics. In doing so, it reframes the relation of publics and infrastructures as praxeological, exploring them from two different angles: (1) When, under which conditions and by what means are publics cooperatively produced, practically embedded and socio-technically infrastructured? (2) When, under which circumstances and how are infrastructures perceived as such, being debated in various publics, critically and explicitly examined for how they are used, shaped and which effects they have? These questions imply a reconception of the traditional understanding of both the public realm and infrastructures. Rather than as different fields or systems, we have to treat them as intertwined aspects of socio-technical organisation and study them through a practice theory lens.