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Cover -- Content -- Introduction -- Tech Barons Dream of a Better World - Without the Rest of Us -- Digital Sovereignty -- Algorithmic Sovereignty beyond the Leviathan and the Wicker Man -- Out of Balance. The Impact of Digitalization on Social Cohesion -- Digital Capitalism's Crises of Sovereign -- Agency for All, Privacy for None -- The State. A Key Actor in Shaping Data Infrastructure Space -- At the End of the World, Plant a Tree. Considerations for the End of Human Time -- Building Collective Sovereignty -- Sovereign Imaginaries. How Corporate Digital Imaginaries are endangering our Political Practices -- Geofilters. Vertical Sight and the Tropikós Turn -- Postdigital -- Talk to Me. A Multilingual Installation as a boundary Object for Inclusion in Digital and Public Participation -- Why Feminist Digital Policy Matters -- Researchers Gone Wild. Origins and Endpoints of Image Training Datasets Created "In the Wild" -- Digital Sovereignty in the Pandemic City -- WannaScry! An Interview with Danja Vasiliev -- Digitalization of Art Exhibitions in Times of COVID-19 . Three case studies in China -- a.username? - A Profile Without Qualities. Exploring Amazon through Art and Literature -- Prototyping Digital Sovereignty. Experimenting with Community Wireless Networking Technology -- Viruses as Phenomena of De Facto Destabilization and Potential Subversion -- Authors and Editors.

Digital sovereignty has become a hotly debated concept. The current convergence of multiple crises adds fuel to this debate, as it contextualizes the concept in a foundational discussion of democratic principles, civil rights, and national identities: is (technological) self-determination an option for every individual to cope with the digital sphere effectively? Can disruptive events provide chances to rethink our ideas of society - including the design of the objects and processes which constitute our techno-social realities? The positions assembled in this volume analyze opportunities for participation and policy-making, and describe alternative technological practices before and after the pandemic.

Digital sovereignty has become a hotly debated concept. The current convergence of multiple crises adds fuel to this debate, as it contextualizes the concept in a foundational discussion of democratic principles, civil rights, and national identities: is (technological) self-determination an option for every individual to cope with the digital sphere effectively? Can disruptive events provide chances to rethink our ideas of society - including the design of the objects and processes which constitute our techno-social realities? The positions assembled in this volume analyze opportunities for participation and policy-making, and describe alternative technological practices before and after the pandemic.

Preliminary Material /Daniel Irrgang and Siegfried Zielinski -- Von der Vielheit möglicher Standpunkte /Daniel Irrgang and Siegfried Zielinski -- Körper-Abstraktionen /Dietmar Kamper -- Bilderschatz /Harun Farocki -- Spielsituationen /Susanne Hauser -- Cyborgs, Servonen, Avatare /Klaus Bartels -- Medientheorie, Hirnforschung und die Aufnahme der Türkei /Detlef B. Linke -- Die "innere Spannung im alphanumerischen Code" (Flusser) /Sigrid Weigel -- Was ist anorganischer Sex wirklich? /Elisabeth von Samsonow -- "Knoten des zwischenmenschlichen Netzes" /Christoph Asendorf -- Was Avatare und Engel uns sagen können… /Hinderk M. Emrich -- Time Slot /Peter Weibel -- Flussers Völlerei /Norval Baitello jr. -- Übertragung Gegenübertragung Dritter Körper /Klaus Theweleit -- "Durch fabelhaftes Denken" Evolution, Gedankenexperiment, Science und Fiction /Paola Bozzi -- Empfindungskörper – Zur indirekten Erfahrung /Nils Röller -- Bibliografische Angaben /Daniel Irrgang and Siegfried Zielinski -- Die Autoren /Daniel Irrgang and Siegfried Zielinski -- Die Herausgeber /Daniel Irrgang and Siegfried Zielinski.

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.

This paper asks what skills migrants need to be able to deal with artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in a self-determined way in their everyday lives. We propose a conceptual framework to empirically identify migrant's awareness and perceptions of possible discrimination through AI. Following Bucher (2017, 40), we argue that by experiencing AI systems in their digital environments, people develop AI imaginaries that shape their attitudes, interactions, and practices with AI. We assume that experiences of discrimination evoke affects, feelings, and emotions that at first glance are not associated with AI technologies. The paper provides relevant research questions that address AI imaginaries. In addition to studying knowledge about and perceptions of AI, research should increasingly focus on users' attitudes towards AI, their evaluations of AI, and their feelings, emotions, and affects related to AI. Subsequently, we elaborate on dimensions of digital literacy based on these AI imaginaries. Finally, we will describe the digital skills that are necessary to confidently cope with discrimination by AI technologies.

Taking the notion of health as a leitmotif, this paper discusses some conceptual boundaries for using machine learning⁠ - a data-driven, statistical, and computational technique in the field of artificial intelligence⁠ - for epistemic purposes and for generating knowledge about the world based solely on the statistical correlations found in data (i.e., the "End of Theory" view⁠).The thrust of the argument is that prior theoretical conceptions, subjectivity, and values would - because of their normative power⁠ - inevitably blight any effort at knowledge-making that seeks to be exclusively driven by data and nothing else. The conclusion suggests that machine learning will neither resolve nor mitigate⁠ the serious internal contradictions found in the "biostatistical theory" of health⁠ - the most well-discussed data-driven theory of health. The definition of notions such as these is an ongoing and fraught societal dialogue where the discussion is not only about what is, but also about what should be. This dialogical engagement is a question of ethics and politics ⁠and not one of mathematics.

Best practices for displaying data and metadata pertaining to software licensing and copyright are currently unharmonized. The multiple competing licensing requirements for communicating the chosen license of a software project and its copyright holders increase the compliance burden on project maintainers, especially for smaller free and open source (FOSS) ones. The "REUSE Software" initiative aims to remediate this situation by defining a set of easy-to-implement best practices for declaring copyright and licensing in an unambiguous, human- and machine-readable way, so that the information is preserved when the file is copied and reused by third parties. REUSE specifications facilitate management policies for digital commons, improving data and metadata communication for individuals, communities, governments, and businesses.

Community-driven open access journals foster the idea of a biblio-diverse publishing ecosystem and challenge the prevalent commercialization of academic publishing. But despite their importance, their existence is threatened. With little to no budget they operate mostly on "gifted labor" (Adema/Moore, 2018, 8) by their editorial teams and free support by public infrastructures. The first part of this article describes the model, key functions, and governance principles of community-driven open access journals within the business of global academic publishing. In promoting fair, resilient, and gratis open access, they contribute to the evolution of an inclusive and biblio-diverse publishing ecosystem. In the second part I will detail ways to support community-driven open access journals, e.g., through substantial funding, coaching, and networking. Following-up on this, I will end with introducing a network developed by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society that provides information materials and increases visibility for these journals.

The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected communities already marginalized in pre-coronavirus societies, aggravated by socio-political technologies of racialization, sexism, homo- and transphobia. Dear Chaemin (directed by Bae, 2020) is an autofictional documentary series of three video letters sent from The Hague to the director's sister in Seoul amid isolation. The film juxtaposes the Korean and Dutch contexts of state surveillance, entangled with the b/ordering technologies against queer communities in Seoul and Asian communities in Europe. This paper explores autofictional documentary as an audiovisual method to engage with contemporary dynamics of international politics. First, I summarize the arguments made in the three chapters of the film Dear Chaemin. Second, I propose autofictional documentary as an effective cinematic mode that accounts for situated knowledges and critiques collective memories. Finally, I explore how the autofictional mode is further contextualized through the use of unconventional, non-lens-based audiovisual material.