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Digital Sovereignty
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Practicing Sovereignty: Digital Involvement in Times of Crises
Abstract Over the last decade, digital sovereignty has become a central element in policy discourses on digital issues. Although it has become popular in both centralised/authoritarian and democratic countries alike, the concept remains highly contested. After investigating the challenges to sovereignty appa... view more
Over the last decade, digital sovereignty has become a central element in policy discourses on digital issues. Although it has become popular in both centralised/authoritarian and democratic countries alike, the concept remains highly contested. After investigating the challenges to sovereignty apparently posed by the digital transformation, this essay retraces how sovereignty has re-emerged as a key category with regard to the digital. By systematising the various normative claims to digital sovereignty, it then goes on to show how, today, the concept is understood more as a discursive practice in politics and policy than as a legal or organisational concept.... view less
Keywords
digitalization; digital media; Internet; governance; discourse
Classification
Interactive, electronic Media
Special areas of Departmental Policy
Free Keywords
digital economy; digital sovereignty; internet exceptionalism; state authority
Collection Title
Practicing Sovereignty: Digital Involvement in Times of Crises
Editor
Herlo, Bianca; Irrgang, Daniel; Joost, Gesche; Unteidig, Andreas
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
p. 47-67
Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/247156
ISBN
978-3-8394-5760-3
Status
Published Version; reviewed