About Cybernormer

Cybernormer is a research group within the field of Sociology of Law that aims to explore the norm creating processes (social and legal) that appear in the wake of the changing information technology.

First and formost it is about exploring the gap and the distance that today is at risk of emerging between the traditional society’s rules and the social norms that are generated within the framework of young net cultures.

The group consists of researchers at the Department of Sociology of Law at Lund University along with a number of collabrative partners. Stiftelsen för kunskaps- och kompetensutveckling and Ericsson AB are among others involved in the collaboration.

The aim with the page Cybernormer.se is to create a venue for knowledge and discussions around how Internet creates new norms in society. Social norms that spontanily grow within different net cultures, but also norms in the shape of legislation aiming to regulate and control activities on the internet.

The blog covers our research within this field. We want to create debate and discussion around the questions that surround the project and the research results that are generated within in it. Occasionally we will invite interesting guests to write on the blog to increase the analytical width.

For more, see this post.

  • RSS Cybernorms.net

    • Cybernorms featuring Roger Cotterrell 15 January 2012
      Cybernorms.net at Lund University proudly presents a series of lectures on Sociology of Law hosted on iTunesU. The series display interviews with some of the worlds most prominent scholars in the field today. Håkan Hydén, professor at the sociology of law department, Lund university, has traveled around Europe in this first season, talking to famous sociolog […]
    • Hungarian conference on Human rights v. Copyright in Feb 2012 10 December 2011
      We have during the last few years heard arguments for treating internet access with a rights-based approach, and we have seen national legislative examples of it (i.e. Finland, Costa Rica). That the internet and access to it, means so much for so many in terms of how we lead our lives, education, information, banking etc, […]
    • Copyright and metaphors 5 November 2011
      Don’t miss the TorrentFreak article on my PhD thesis Metaphors and Norms – Understanding copyright law in a digital society (download thesis here [pdf]). TorrentFreak writes: When talking about piracy the entertainment industry and politicians often use the term “theft.” This is a huge problem according to the Swedish sociologist of law Stefan Larsson. In [. […]
    • Cybernorms featuring Reza Banakar 4 November 2011
      Cybernorms.net at Lund University proudly presents a series of lectures on Sociology of Law hosted on iTunesU. The series display interviews with some of the worlds most prominent scholars in the field today. Håkan Hydén, professor at the sociology of law department, Lund university, has traveled around Europe in this first season, talking to famous sociolog […]
    • Understanding copyright law in a digital society 14 October 2011
      Stefan Larsson, member of the Cybernorms research group, is today defending his doctoral thesis at the department of Sociology of Law, Lund University. The titel of the thesis is Metaphors and Norms – Understanding copyright law in a digital society Abstract: This is a compilation thesis in the sociology of law, which analyses copyright law […]