First Monday December 2016

Readers:

First Monday has just published the December 2016 (volume 21, number 12)
issue at http://firstmonday.org/issue/current.

The following papers are included in this month's special issue,
"Reclaiming the Internet" with distributed architectures. The guest
editors for this issue are Francesca Musiani and Cecile Meadel.

First Monday
Volume 21, Number 12 - 5 December 2016

"Reclaiming the Internet" with distributed architectures: An introduction
by Francesca Musiani and Cecile Meadel

The decentralization of knowledge: How Carnap and Heidegger influenced the
Web
by Harry Halpin and Alexandre Monnin

Monuments of cyberspace: Designing the Internet beyond the network framework
by Paris Chrysos

Blockchain technology as a regulatory technology: From code is law to law
is code
by Primavera De Filippi and Samer Hassan

Peer to party: Occupy the law
by Melanie Dulong de Rosnay

Law encoded: Towards a free speech policy model based on decentralized
architecture
by Argyro P. Karanasiou

Alternative rules for alternative networks? Tort law meets wireless
community networks
by Federica Giovanella

Local networks for local interactions: Four reasons why and a way forward
by Panayotis Antoniadis

Cosmopolitical composition of distributed architectures
by Dominique Boullier

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With the contents of the December 2016 issue, First Monday has published
1,622 papers in 247 issues, written by 2,252 different authors. This issue
is the twentieth special issue of First Monday, where guest editors bring
together focused papers on a definitive theme.

Thanks for your continuing interest in our work,

Edward J Valauskas
Chief Editor and Founder, First Monday