Parametric Virtues: Information Policy at System Borders

Abstract: We have long recognized that information policy is of constitutional importance and affects the nature of our social and political systems in constitutive ways. We have not, however, explicitly addressed the specific domain of parametric functions, processes, and tools in its own right. This paper provides a theorization and conceptualization of what that domain looks like. It introduces a number of parametric functions for which information and other types of policy tools are already in use or can be easily conceived as they fall into the categories of complexity, energy generation, filters, triggers, and topology. The talk will conclude by thinking through what this approach to understanding the emergence, sustenance, and transformations in the nature of governance means for understanding and deliberately shaping metagovernance.

computers and societymultiagent systemsnetworking and internet architecturesocial and information networkssystems and controllaw and economics

Audience: researchers in the topic

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