Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103053
Regina Luttrell, Jason Davis, Carrie Welch
Continued access to genuine, verified news is important in providing news audiences with information about events of social importance. Sophisticated methods of detection and attribution must be applied to counter the proliferation of AI-generated mis- and disinformation and uphold journalistic values. This study examines the complexities of transparency in journalism and AI in relation to source attribution. While various AI analytics claim performance capabilities on specific tasks related to media detection, there remains a need for a standard evaluative framework that can comparatively measure the success of these various analytics. This paper explores how the Theory of Content Consistency (ToCC) can be leveraged as a framework to facilitate validation of AI analytics attempting to detect misattributed and manipulated media.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103072
Adrian Rauchfleisch , Andreas Jungherr , Alexander Wuttke
The increasing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in election campaigns, such as AI-generated political ads, automated messaging, and the widespread availability of AI-assisted photorealistic content, is transforming political communication. This new era of AI-enabled election campaigns presents regulatory challenges for digital media ecosystems, prompting calls for an updated governance framework. While research has begun mapping AI's role in digital media ecosystems, an often-overlooked factor is public attitudes toward regulating AI in election campaigns. Understanding these attitudes is essential as regulatory debates unfold at national and international levels, where public opinion often constrains the leeway of political decision-makers. We analyze data from two cross-sectional surveys conducted in the United States and Taiwan—two democracies with relatively lenient campaign regulations, which held presidential elections in the same year. We examine the role of general attitudes toward AI, psychological dispositions, and partisan alignments in shaping public support for AI regulation during elections. Our findings underscore the significance of psychological and attitudinal perspectives in predicting regulatory preferences. These insights contribute to broader discussions on AI governance within digital media ecosystems and its implications for democratic processes.
{"title":"Explaining public preferences for regulating Artificial Intelligence in election campaigns: Evidence from the U.S. and Taiwan","authors":"Adrian Rauchfleisch , Andreas Jungherr , Alexander Wuttke","doi":"10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103072","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103072","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The increasing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in election campaigns, such as AI-generated political ads, automated messaging, and the widespread availability of AI-assisted photorealistic content, is transforming political communication. This new era of AI-enabled election campaigns presents regulatory challenges for digital media ecosystems, prompting calls for an updated governance framework. While research has begun mapping AI's role in digital media ecosystems, an often-overlooked factor is public attitudes toward regulating AI in election campaigns. Understanding these attitudes is essential as regulatory debates unfold at national and international levels, where public opinion often constrains the leeway of political decision-makers. We analyze data from two cross-sectional surveys conducted in the United States and Taiwan—two democracies with relatively lenient campaign regulations, which held presidential elections in the same year. We examine the role of general attitudes toward AI, psychological dispositions, and partisan alignments in shaping public support for AI regulation during elections. Our findings underscore the significance of psychological and attitudinal perspectives in predicting regulatory preferences. These insights contribute to broader discussions on AI governance within digital media ecosystems and its implications for democratic processes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22290,"journal":{"name":"Telecommunications Policy","volume":"49 10","pages":"Article 103072"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145600522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103052
Ignacio J. Núñez
In 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) awarded $886 million in subsidies to Starlink to provide high-speed broadband access to thousands of unserved areas in the United States. Starlink committed to providing access using new technology based on a constellation of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. Two years later, Starlink was disqualified and the awarded subsidies were rescinded. This article examines Starlink’s participation in the RDOF program, which distributed subsidies through a multiple-round simultaneous auction. Optimal bidding conditions are utilized to estimate Starlink’s private costs and counterfactual rent. I find that Starlink’s rent would have exceeded 58% of its awarded subsidies, as Starlink was the only LEO provider in the auction, with a significant cost advantage compared to existing broadband technologies in remote and high-cost areas. This finding suggests that similar subsidy programs could benefit from tightening reservation prices in areas that Starlink won and fostering competition among LEO providers.
{"title":"Procurement auctions for broadband access: Starlink and the rural digital opportunity fund","authors":"Ignacio J. Núñez","doi":"10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103052","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103052","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) awarded $886 million in subsidies to Starlink to provide high-speed broadband access to thousands of unserved areas in the United States. Starlink committed to providing access using new technology based on a constellation of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. Two years later, Starlink was disqualified and the awarded subsidies were rescinded. This article examines Starlink’s participation in the RDOF program, which distributed subsidies through a multiple-round simultaneous auction. Optimal bidding conditions are utilized to estimate Starlink’s private costs and counterfactual rent. I find that Starlink’s rent would have exceeded 58% of its awarded subsidies, as Starlink was the only LEO provider in the auction, with a significant cost advantage compared to existing broadband technologies in remote and high-cost areas. This finding suggests that similar subsidy programs could benefit from tightening reservation prices in areas that Starlink won and fostering competition among LEO providers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22290,"journal":{"name":"Telecommunications Policy","volume":"49 10","pages":"Article 103052"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145600510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103069
Jianxian Wu
The global proliferation of e-government initiatives reflects governments' strategic use of digital technologies for enhanced public service delivery and societal problem-solving. However, existing research predominantly examines individual e-government policies in isolation, limiting understanding of how policy mixes influence critical outcomes such as environmental quality and highlighting the need for comprehensive empirical analysis. This study constructs a quasi-experiment to assess the impact of e-government policy mixes, including the national e-government pilots, the big data management reform pilots, and the national information benefit pilots, on air pollution levels in over 200,000 communities across China over the past two decades. The empirical results demonstrate that these e-government policy mixes achieved primary synergistic effects in environmental improvement, significantly reducing community air pollution levels. These findings remain robust after rigorous validation through parallel trends testing, conditional random assignment verification, and stable unit treatment value assumption checks. The mechanism behind this effect lies in the enhanced enforcement capabilities of environmental agencies and increased citizen participation in environmental actions. These findings advance understanding of e-governance effectiveness from a policy mixes perspective, providing critical insights for optimizing e-government portfolio design for environmental sustainability.
{"title":"Synergy or conflict: Can E-government policy mixes drive environmental improvements? Evidence from China's multi-pilot quasi-experiment","authors":"Jianxian Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103069","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103069","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The global proliferation of e-government initiatives reflects governments' strategic use of digital technologies for enhanced public service delivery and societal problem-solving. However, existing research predominantly examines individual e-government policies in isolation, limiting understanding of how policy mixes influence critical outcomes such as environmental quality and highlighting the need for comprehensive empirical analysis. This study constructs a quasi-experiment to assess the impact of e-government policy mixes, including the national e-government pilots, the big data management reform pilots, and the national information benefit pilots, on air pollution levels in over 200,000 communities across China over the past two decades. The empirical results demonstrate that these e-government policy mixes achieved primary synergistic effects in environmental improvement, significantly reducing community air pollution levels. These findings remain robust after rigorous validation through parallel trends testing, conditional random assignment verification, and stable unit treatment value assumption checks. The mechanism behind this effect lies in the enhanced enforcement capabilities of environmental agencies and increased citizen participation in environmental actions. These findings advance understanding of e-governance effectiveness from a policy mixes perspective, providing critical insights for optimizing e-government portfolio design for environmental sustainability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22290,"journal":{"name":"Telecommunications Policy","volume":"49 10","pages":"Article 103069"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145600517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103057
Arturas Medeisis , William Webb , Fernando Beltran , Leo Fulvio Minervini
This paper offers a review of technical policy options that should enable the possibility of shared use of the frequency band 6425–7125 MHz by 5G/6G public mobile systems as primary user and secondary Radio Local Area Network applications, such as Wi-Fi. The analysis focuses on a European case study and is made by reviewing the numerous spectrum co-existence studies considered there against a set of critical research questions. The findings are then compared with the body of technical evidence available in academic literature. Based on such critical comparative analysis, we propose a Spectrum Usage Rights-based licensing approach with a consolidated set of policy options that could constitute the regulatory framework to enable shared use of the upper 6 GHz band by 5G/6G and Radio Local Area Networks.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103058
Lei Wang , Yongming Sun
Rural e-commerce (REC) is increasingly recognized as a catalyst for balanced urban-rural development and common prosperity. Leveraging county-level data spanning 2006 to 2022, this study investigates the effects of the “Rural E-commerce Comprehensive Demonstration” project (RECD project) on the urban-rural income gap and elucidates the underlying mechanisms. Our analysis reveals a statistically significant reduction in the urban-rural income disparity attributable to the implementation of the RECD project, with the observed effect being further amplified by the synergistic interaction with rural information policies. Moreover, the RECD project has been instrumental in poverty alleviation, notably diminishing the urban-rural income disparity in China's less-developed, impoverished regions and areas with backward digital foundations. Through mechanism analysis, we uncover that the RECD project promotes a “skewed digital dividend,” which entails an increase in incomes and employment for rural residents, thereby contributing to the reduction of the urban-rural income disparity and promoting inclusive growth. These findings provide an empirical basis for formulating digital agricultural policies and offer insights for emerging countries aiming to enhance farmer incomes and bridge the urban-rural divide.
{"title":"Digital dividends? Rural E-commerce policy and urban-rural income disparity in China","authors":"Lei Wang , Yongming Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103058","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103058","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rural e-commerce (REC) is increasingly recognized as a catalyst for balanced urban-rural development and common prosperity. Leveraging county-level data spanning 2006 to 2022, this study investigates the effects of the “Rural E-commerce Comprehensive Demonstration” project (RECD project) on the urban-rural income gap and elucidates the underlying mechanisms. Our analysis reveals a statistically significant reduction in the urban-rural income disparity attributable to the implementation of the RECD project, with the observed effect being further amplified by the synergistic interaction with rural information policies. Moreover, the RECD project has been instrumental in poverty alleviation, notably diminishing the urban-rural income disparity in China's less-developed, impoverished regions and areas with backward digital foundations. Through mechanism analysis, we uncover that the RECD project promotes a “skewed digital dividend,” which entails an increase in incomes and employment for rural residents, thereby contributing to the reduction of the urban-rural income disparity and promoting inclusive growth. These findings provide an empirical basis for formulating digital agricultural policies and offer insights for emerging countries aiming to enhance farmer incomes and bridge the urban-rural divide.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22290,"journal":{"name":"Telecommunications Policy","volume":"49 10","pages":"Article 103058"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145600515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103073
Meiqi Sun, Jia Lu
Promoting gender equality worldwide is a key issue in achieving sustainable development. Drawing on the digital divide framework, this study examines how the effect of mobile phone access on economic gender inequality is shaped by two crucial indicators of social context, culture and education. Using multiple cross-national datasets, we analyze a panel sample of 104 countries from 2014 to 2022. The results show that in conservative countries, mobile phone penetration reduces economic gender inequality. By contrast, in liberal countries, mobile phone penetration widens the economic gender gap. Moreover, education amplifies the effects of mobile phone penetration in both cultural contexts. This study offers a new lens for examining the interactions between the digital divide, education, and culture in the pursuit of gender equality.
{"title":"Mobile phones and economic gender inequality: A panel study of 104 countries from 2014 to 2022","authors":"Meiqi Sun, Jia Lu","doi":"10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103073","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103073","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Promoting gender equality worldwide is a key issue in achieving sustainable development. Drawing on the digital divide framework, this study examines how the effect of mobile phone access on economic gender inequality is shaped by two crucial indicators of social context, culture and education. Using multiple cross-national datasets, we analyze a panel sample of 104 countries from 2014 to 2022. The results show that in conservative countries, mobile phone penetration reduces economic gender inequality. By contrast, in liberal countries, mobile phone penetration widens the economic gender gap. Moreover, education amplifies the effects of mobile phone penetration in both cultural contexts. This study offers a new lens for examining the interactions between the digital divide, education, and culture in the pursuit of gender equality.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22290,"journal":{"name":"Telecommunications Policy","volume":"49 10","pages":"Article 103073"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145600563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103055
Xiaoxiao Chen, Jiayi Yang, Bo Wu
Amid rising concerns over AI-driven technological unemployment, this study addresses the lack of firm-level evidence by analyzing how artificial intelligence (AI) adoption shapes employment dynamics in China. A comprehensive AI adoption index is constructed using novel text-mining and machine-learning techniques applied to annual reports of Chinese A-share listed companies from 2007 through 2023. The analysis reveals that AI intensity boosts productivity and operational competitiveness, which in turn prompts firm expansion and increases overall labor demand. Yet aggregate growth masks a pronounced shift toward high-skill occupations, producing a skill-biased unipolarization of labor demand. Input–output analysis further shows that AI penetration in upstream industries exacerbates this polarization in downstream sectors. Policy evaluation indicates that government interventions, especially in technology-intensive firms, dampen the labor-market disruptions associated with AI, with the strongest stabilizing effects observed in regions featuring rigorous tax enforcement and low market segmentation. Threshold-effect tests uncover a nonlinear pattern of rising marginal impacts of AI on labor demand. The employment-enhancing benefits of AI are most evident in state-owned enterprises, large firms, and capital-and-technology-intensive industries. These findings offer fresh microeconomic insights into the employment consequences of AI and provide guidance for labor market governance, industrial upgrading, and human capital development in the digital era.
{"title":"How is artificial intelligence shaping the labor demand of firms? ——evidence from text-mining analysis of listed companies","authors":"Xiaoxiao Chen, Jiayi Yang, Bo Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103055","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103055","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Amid rising concerns over AI-driven technological unemployment, this study addresses the lack of firm-level evidence by analyzing how artificial intelligence (AI) adoption shapes employment dynamics in China. A comprehensive AI adoption index is constructed using novel text-mining and machine-learning techniques applied to annual reports of Chinese A-share listed companies from 2007 through 2023. The analysis reveals that AI intensity boosts productivity and operational competitiveness, which in turn prompts firm expansion and increases overall labor demand. Yet aggregate growth masks a pronounced shift toward high-skill occupations, producing a skill-biased unipolarization of labor demand. Input–output analysis further shows that AI penetration in upstream industries exacerbates this polarization in downstream sectors. Policy evaluation indicates that government interventions, especially in technology-intensive firms, dampen the labor-market disruptions associated with AI, with the strongest stabilizing effects observed in regions featuring rigorous tax enforcement and low market segmentation. Threshold-effect tests uncover a nonlinear pattern of rising marginal impacts of AI on labor demand. The employment-enhancing benefits of AI are most evident in state-owned enterprises, large firms, and capital-and-technology-intensive industries. These findings offer fresh microeconomic insights into the employment consequences of AI and provide guidance for labor market governance, industrial upgrading, and human capital development in the digital era.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22290,"journal":{"name":"Telecommunications Policy","volume":"49 10","pages":"Article 103055"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145600513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103059
Xin Ning , Qinmeng Wang , Ge Wang , Liumiao Qin
The reciprocal interaction between digital and green policies plays a pivotal role in promoting firms green technology innovation (GTI) and advancing sustainable development. Using panel data from 2011 to 2023 on Chinese A-share listed firms, this study examines the effects of the “Broadband China” (BBC) and Low-Carbon City (LCC) dual-pilot initiatives on firms’ GTI and their underlying mechanisms. The paper reveals that through goal alignment and functional complementarity, dual-pilot policy increases firms’ high-quality GTI by 0.7 % and enhances innovation diffusion by 12.8 %. Causal mediation analysis indicates that the dual-pilot enhance media coverage, attract green investment, and increase government subsidies, thereby strengthening firms’ capacity for high-quality green innovation. Heterogeneity analysis shows that state-owned enterprises benefit more strongly in terms of GTI quality and diffusion. BBC taking the lead in implementing is conducive to the short-term allocation of innovation factors, while LCC taking the lead facilitates long-term innovation diffusion. This research provides quantitative evidence and optimization paths for the reciprocity between digital and green policies.
{"title":"Reciprocity or conflict? The impact of dual-policy of broadband China and low-carbon city on firms’ green technology innovation","authors":"Xin Ning , Qinmeng Wang , Ge Wang , Liumiao Qin","doi":"10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103059","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103059","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The reciprocal interaction between digital and green policies plays a pivotal role in promoting firms green technology innovation (GTI) and advancing sustainable development. Using panel data from 2011 to 2023 on Chinese A-share listed firms, this study examines the effects of the “Broadband China” (BBC) and Low-Carbon City (LCC) dual-pilot initiatives on firms’ GTI and their underlying mechanisms. The paper reveals that through goal alignment and functional complementarity, dual-pilot policy increases firms’ high-quality GTI by 0.7 % and enhances innovation diffusion by 12.8 %. Causal mediation analysis indicates that the dual-pilot enhance media coverage, attract green investment, and increase government subsidies, thereby strengthening firms’ capacity for high-quality green innovation. Heterogeneity analysis shows that state-owned enterprises benefit more strongly in terms of GTI quality and diffusion. BBC taking the lead in implementing is conducive to the short-term allocation of innovation factors, while LCC taking the lead facilitates long-term innovation diffusion. This research provides quantitative evidence and optimization paths for the reciprocity between digital and green policies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22290,"journal":{"name":"Telecommunications Policy","volume":"49 10","pages":"Article 103059"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145600516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103077
Sara Morrell
This paper examines the politics behind global shifts in human rights-based language regarding the Internet. It uses the case of the Global Digital Compact to test the ability of various International Relations theories to account for these shifts. The Global Digital Compact is an international digital cooperation and Internet governance framework facilitated by the United Nations and endorsed by 93 countries, as of 2024. I analyze 174 input documents used to inform the development of the compact. These documents were authored by civil society, academic, private sector, government, and technical community actors from the Global South and North. I integrate qualitative content analysis, network analysis, and topic modeling to measure differences in the frequency and relationships among rights presented in the documents. Historically, civil and political rights, for example, the right to free speech, have been promoted as the most relevant to the Internet by the Internet technical community, which largely originated in U.S. institutions. Contrary to this historical focus, I unexpectedly found that many actors, including technical community actors, focus more on economic, social, and cultural rights than on civil and political rights. However, they do so implicitly, avoiding the term “human rights.” This implicit support expressed by technical community actors may help lay the foundation for policies supporting economic, social, and cultural rights online. These findings also highlight the importance of considering global perspectives in future research on Internet governance.
{"title":"Why (not) talk about human rights? Politics in the Global Digital Compact","authors":"Sara Morrell","doi":"10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103077","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103077","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the politics behind global shifts in human rights-based language regarding the Internet. It uses the case of the Global Digital Compact to test the ability of various International Relations theories to account for these shifts. The Global Digital Compact is an international digital cooperation and Internet governance framework facilitated by the United Nations and endorsed by 93 countries, as of 2024. I analyze 174 input documents used to inform the development of the compact. These documents were authored by civil society, academic, private sector, government, and technical community actors from the Global South and North. I integrate qualitative content analysis, network analysis, and topic modeling to measure differences in the frequency and relationships among rights presented in the documents. Historically, civil and political rights, for example, the right to free speech, have been promoted as the most relevant to the Internet by the Internet technical community, which largely originated in U.S. institutions. Contrary to this historical focus, I unexpectedly found that many actors, including technical community actors, focus more on economic, social, and cultural rights than on civil and political rights. However, they do so implicitly, avoiding the term “human rights.” This implicit support expressed by technical community actors may help lay the foundation for policies supporting economic, social, and cultural rights online. These findings also highlight the importance of considering global perspectives in future research on Internet governance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22290,"journal":{"name":"Telecommunications Policy","volume":"49 10","pages":"Article 103077"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145600521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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