An entry on ‘Digital Constitutionalism’, written by DCN member Karolin Rippich, has been included in the recently published Imagining the Internet(s): A Collaborative Glossary. The entry belongs to the thematic cluster of Science & Regulation, which “gathers concepts concerned with governance, policy, and the institutional framing of the internet” (p. 2). It reflects upon how digital constitutionalism “illuminates competing [and co-existing] imaginaries of how the internet(s) – and digital society more broadly – should be governed, by whom, and within which material and constitutional constraints” (p. 9).

The glossary is a collection of 28 keywords to think about the internet as an imagined object, each written by a different scholar. The entries are not encyclopaedic overviews but personal reflections and commentary on various terms – meant to act as introductions and provocations pointing readers towards further work. As such, the glossary is meant as a starting point for students, scholars, and anyone else who wants to think more carefully about the imaginative dimensions of the internet(s).

It is now openly accessible, published with the Institute of Network Cultures, and edited by Anya Shchetvina and Nathalie Fridzema.