Practicing sovereignty: digital involvement in times of crises

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