Buchbeitrag

Digital Sovereignty

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.

Language
Englisch

Classification
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Subject
digital sovereignty
internet governance
internet exceptionalism
digital economy
state authority

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Pohle, Julia
Thiel, Thorsten
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
transcript Verlag
(where)
Bielefeld
(when)
2021

DOI
doi:10.14361/9783839457603-003
Handle
Last update
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Object type

  • Buchbeitrag

Associated

  • Pohle, Julia
  • Thiel, Thorsten
  • transcript Verlag

Time of origin

  • 2021

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