Dr. Milton Mueller

Scientific Committee Member
Syracuse, NY USA
mueller[at]syr.edu

Milton Mueller is a Professor and Director of the Telecommunications Network Management Program at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies. He teaches and does research on the political economy of communication and information, using the theoretical tools of property rights analysis, institutional economics and both historical and quantitative social science methods. He has a longstanding interest in the history of communication technologies and global governance institutions. Mueller received the Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989.

Mueller's most recent research projects explore the efforts of citizens and activists to shape communication and information policy, both globally and nationally. His acclaimed book Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2002) was the first scholarly account of the Internet governance debates. Mueller was a co-founder, with Kathy Kleiman, of the Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) (NonComm) and was chair of NCUC from 2003-2005.

Some recent publications include:

• Milton L. Mueller, John Mathiason and Hans Klein, "The Internet and Global Governance: Principles and Norms for a New Regime." Global Governance (forthcoming in 2006).
• Milton Mueller and Jisuk Woo, "Spectators or Players: Internet Governance and the Rest of the World." Chapter in William J. Drake & Ernest J. Wilson III, Editors, Governing Global Electronic Networks: International Perspectives on Power and Policy. Cambridge: MIT Press, (2006)