Forschungsprojekt
Theorizing the Entanglements of Public and Private Authority within Migration
The spread of the internet and its related digital technologies into all facets of social, economic and political life, has made control over knowledge a key driver of economic and political power in the global political economy. Knowledge – rather, the control of knowledge and information – stands to become as important as production was previously and finance is now. Given that internet firms like Google, which were not even around 20 years ago, are now some of the world’s most valuable corporations, it is likely that knowledge brokers like Google and firms that control key patents, trademarks and copyrights stand to play a decisive role in global politics, economics and society. In a digital economy and society, in which the distinction between “online” and “offline” is increasingly meaningless, understanding the nature of internet governance is an essential task.
This project, undertaken with Dr. Blayne Haggart, whose tenure at the Centre is from September 2018-August 2019, explores the nature, limits and possibilities of global governance of what Susan Strange called the “knowledge structure” – that part of the political economy involving control over “the production, possession, control, communication, and ... legitimization of knowledge” (Tooze 2000). It focuses on two key and related aspects of the knowledge structure: internet governance; and intellectual property (IP) and data governance. In other words, our research focuses on the means by which information (in the colloquial sense) is communicated, and the means by which information is turned into economically and socially valuable commodities. While these issues are usually examined in isolation, in practice they are intimately related, with IP governing the content flowing over the network and internet governance setting the terms of access and use of the network itself. They need to be considered together to understand fully the contours and effects of knowledge regulation.
Our in-progress manuscript, Information Wars: Internet Governance, Intellectual Property and the Exercise of Power in the 21st Century, which addresses these issues, will serve as the focal point of our activities at the Centre.
Vita
07/2017 | Assistant Professor, Criminology Department of Social Science York University |
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2017 – 2020 | Visiting Scholar School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) Australian National University Canberra, Australia |
2016 – 2019 | Adjunct Professor Department of Sociology Brock University |
2015 – 2016 | Assistant Professor Department of Sociology Brock University |
2014 | PhD in Sociology School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) The Australian National University Canberra, Australia |
2014 – 2015 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow Baldy Centre for Law and Social Policy State University of New York Buffalo, US |
2012 | Visiting Scholar Centre for Criminology University of Oxford Oxford, UK |
Publications
2019 | Haggart, Blayne, Henne, Kathryn, and Natasha Tusikov, eds. Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 121-148. |
2019 | Tusikov, N. Defunding Hate: PayPal’s Regulation of Hate Groups. Surveillance & Society 17 (1/2): 46-53. |
2019 | Tusikov, N. Precarious Ownership of the Internet of Things in the Age of Data. In Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century. Haggart, Blayne, Henne, Kathryn, and Tusikov, N., eds. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan |
2019 | Haggart, B., Henne, Kathryn, and N. Tusikov. Introduction. In Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century. Haggart, Blayne, Henne, Kathryn, and Tusikov, N., eds. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan |
2019 | Tusikov, N., Haggart, B., and Kathryn Henne. Conclusion: Looking Back, Looking Forward. In Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century. Haggart, Blayne, Henne, Kathryn, and Tusikov, N., eds. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan |
2018 | Tusikov, N and Blayne Haggart. Implementing a National Data Strategy: The Need for Innovative Public Consultations. Commissioned by the Centre for International Governance Innovation. Waterloo, Ontario. October 23, www.cigionline.org/publications/implementing-national-data-strategy-need-innovative-public-consultations |
2017 | Tusikov, N. Revenue Chokepoints: Global Regulation by Payment Intermediaries. In Luca Belli and Nicolo Zingales, eds. Platform Regulations: How They are Regulated and How They Regulate Us. Official Outcome of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility. Internet Governance Forum. |
2017 | Tusikov, N. Transnational Non-State Regulatory Regimes. In Peter Drahos, ed. Regulatory Theory: Foundations and Applications. Canberra: Australian National University Press. |
2016 | Tusikov, N. Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet. Oakland: University of California Press |
2012 | Tusikov, N. Measuring Organized Crime-Related Harms: Exploring Five Policing Methods. Crime, Law and Social Change 57(1): 99-115 |
2011 | Tusikov, N. The Godfather is Dead: A Hybrid Model of Organized Crime. In Graciela Martinez-Zalace, Susana Vargas Cervantes and Will Straw, eds. Aprehendiendo al delincuente. Crimen y medios en América del Norte. (Apprehending the Offender: Crime and Media in North America). Media@McGill University/National Autonomous University of Mexico, 143-159 |
2009 | Tusikov, N and Fahlman R. Threat and Risk Assessments: A Common Framework. In Jerry Ratcliffe (ed.), Strategic Thinking in Criminal Intelligence 2nd Edition, Sydney: The Federation Press, 147-164 |