Daryl J. Barker

As a doctoral candidate my research has focused on conducting humanistic inquiry of digital technologies. I study internet infrastructure focusing on internet exchange points and internet governance. I utilize mixed methods, drawing on international political economy approaches using quantitative analysis, and qualitative analysis though Critical Discourse Analysis/Process Tracing to show how power dynamics appear in decisions made in my objects of study.

Coming from an information studies background my commitments focus on concepts of access and open inquiry. I seek to apply ethical and philosophical considerations to what otherwise may be technical questions in the digital technology space. My scholarship has included work in the fields of science and technology studies, teaching and learning, instructional design, as well as, interdisciplinary work across political science, media studies, gender studies, and legal studies.