[governance] New book in French: "Nains sans géants Architecture décentralisée et services Internet"

[Carolina Rossini]

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From: Francesca Musiani <francesca.musiani at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 11:40 AM
Subject: [berkmanfriends] New book in French: "Nains sans géants
Architecture décentralisée et services Internet"
To: Berkman Friends <berkmanfriends at eon.law.harvard.edu>


Dear Berkfriends,

For the French readers among you, today's release of my book may be of
interest. Waiting for the English version... :)

http://www.pressesdesmines.com/nains-sans-geants.html

Kind regards,
Francesca


The cover blurb roughly translates as:

Dwarfs Without Giants: Decentralized Network Architectures and
Internet-based Services

Francesca Musiani
With a Preface by Geoffrey C. Bowker

Decentralization is central to the genesis of the Internet, whose primary
objective was indeed to enable communication between heterogeneous and
remote machines, without mandatory transit points. Today, concentrationmodels
dominate, around a handful of macro-actors - *giants* equipped
withextensiveserver farms, managingthe most part of Internet traffic
. However, the original principle has not been entirely abandoned, and in all
areas of application, developers explore decentralized alternatives. These *
dwarfs *go on to form search engines, social networks, storage spaces that
allocate resources and tasks equally between members of the network.

This book explores decentralized approaches to Internet services, and
investigates the organizational forms they propose: it shows how a network that
distributes the responsibility of its operation to the edges, and
organizes according
to a non-hierarchical or hybrid model, may develop in the highly-constrained
contemporary Internet. The operation of such systems raises questions of market
organization, technical efficiency, economic sustainability, but also of
privacy protection and regulation of personal information.

As Geoffrey Bowker argues in his introduction, this volume ultimately
suggests that we need to approach the study of Internet governance in new
ways, and highlights how, to understand this key socio-technical issue of
our time, we need to analyze possible alternatives to the current modes of
operation of the "network of networks". In a detailed and informed manner,
this is precisely what "Dwarfs without giants" achieves.








-- 
Francesca Musiani, PhD

2012-13 Yahoo! Fellow in
Residence<http://isd.georgetown.edu/programs/yahoofellow/>
Institute for the Study of Diplomacy <http://isd.georgetown.edu/>
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service <http://sfs.georgetown.edu/>
Georgetown University
1316 36th Street NW
Washington, DC 20057-1025

CSI, MINES ParisTech <http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/> | ANR ADAM
project<http://adam.hypotheses.org/>

Berkman Center for Internet and Society <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/>
ESN-IAMCR <http://iamcr.org/s-wg/cctmc/esn> | GigaNet <http://giga-net.org>

Personal website <http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/Perso/Musiani/> |
Twitter <https://twitter.com/franmusiani>

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-- 
*Carolina Rossini*
http://carolinarossini.net/
+ 1 6176979389
*carolina.rossini at gmail.com*
skype: carolrossini
@carolinarossini




-- 
*Carolina Rossini*
http://carolinarossini.net/
+ 1 6176979389
*carolina.rossini at gmail.com*
skype: carolrossini
@carolinarossini
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