This workshop aims to showcase the broad range of research methods used by Internet governance scholars from all disciplines to study these standard-setting bodies, such as the IETF, IEEE, W3C, WHATWG, 3GPP, ITU-T, ITU-R.

It is also open to the study of "de-facto standardisation" that takes place outside of formal organisations and processes (Musiani and Ermoshina, 2017).

The workshop aims to provide an opportunity for scholars and researchers to:

• Explore and perhaps discover qualitative and quantitative methods applicable to standard setting for information networks
• Discuss the feasibility of applying specific methods
• Improve the understanding of specific methods
• Identify new and existing data sources
• Share open research questions and work-in-progress on methods
• Receive feedback to improve the methods.

We will cover the following topics during the workshop:

• Mixed Methods
• Lessons from studying non-Internet standard-setting bodies
• How to acquire data (standards, patents, conversations, outcome documents)
• Network analysis
• Computational methods
• Discourse analysis
• Ethnography

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