Digital Sovereignty

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 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

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 47-67 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet ; In: Herlo, Bianca (Hg.), Irrgang, Daniel (Hg.), Joost, Gesche (Hg.), Unteidig, Andreas (Hg.): Practicing Sovereignty: Digital Involvement in Times of Crises. 2021. S. 47-67. ISBN 978-3-8394-5760-3

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Politik

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2021
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Bielefeld
• (who): transcript Verlag
• (when): 2021
• Creator: Pohle, Julia ; Thiel, Thorsten
• Contributor: Herlo, Bianca ; Irrgang, Daniel ; Joost, Gesche ; Unteidig, Andreas

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022101517090809744386
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 25.03.2025, 1:48 PM CET