Introduction to The International Communication Gazette. Themed issue “Digital Constitutionalism: Human Rights and Power Limitation in the Internet Eco-system”

The contributions to this collections show that a discourse on digital constitutionalism is clearly in the making: it may not be a sufficient condition for a process of constitutionalization of the Internet, but we argue it is a necessary one. Digital constitutionalism is an effort to bring political concerns and perspective back into the governance of the Internet, deeply informed by economic and technical rationalities. It is also an attempt to ground the political struggle over the Internet in explicit recognition of fundamental rights and democratic principles, and it differs from other political endeavors aiming to replace the private sector leadership in Internet-related decision-making with that of national governments and intergovernmental organizations.