Estudio Bibliométrico de la Investigación Sobre la Regulación de Internet

Abstract

The Internet development and its associated services have led to an increasingly connected society, the Information Society, not only from a social point of view, through multiple social networks (Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, etc.) or messaging services such as WhatsApp; but from a commercial point of view, where millions of consumers use e-commerce daily for the acquisition of all kinds of goods and services. It is not surprising, therefore, the growing interest of the scientific community for the study of the network, and for its regulation. The Internet is too large (more than two hundred countries, more than four billion users and billions of daily transactions), to be regulated by a general rule. A creative combination of regulatory approaches seems necessary, which has led to different points of view in Internet management. On the one hand, governance through multiple institutions that standardize and self-regulate certain aspects of the network, and on the other, a regulation of basic aspects, through laws and regulations, from public administrations. This work highlights the study of Internet regulation from a multidisciplinary perspective, not only in the field of Law, but also from technological areas linked to the development of the Internet, which have incorporated legal and regulatory aspects into their studies.