Practicing Sovereignty: Digital Involvement in Times of Crises
Bielefeld: transcript (2021), 430 pp.
Contains illustrations
Series: Design, 54
ISBN 978-3-8394-5760-3 (pdf); 978-3-8376-5760-9 (print)
"This book frames digital sovereignty as a right to be claimed and a process constantly in the making, as a condition of the ability to critically partake in the digital transformation. Emphasizing a political and transformative significance of the term, this interdisciplinary publication gathers scholars, activists, artists and human rights advocates who develop practices or provide spaces and structures to foster sophisticated means of digital involvement. Its aim is to identify diverse facets of what it means to be digitally sovereign, but also to critically discuss the viability of the term, especially in the light of modern-day crises and for the many future challenges yet to come. The positions assembled in this volume analyze new opportunities for social participation and policy making and recommend alternative technological and social practices utilized by various groups and collectives – both before and after COVID-19." (Introduction, page 13)
Tech Barons Dream of a Better World – Without the Rest of Us / Ramesh Srinivasan and Peter Bloom, 23
Digital Sovereignty / Julia Pohle and Thorsten Thiel, 47
Algorithmic Sovereignty beyond the Leviathan and the Wicker Man / Denisa Kera, 69
Out of Balance: The Impact of Digitalization on Social Cohesion / Gesche Joost, 91
Digital Capitalisms’ Crises of Sovereignty / Philipp Staab, 107
Agency for All, Privacy for None / Claudio Guarnieri, 121
The State: A Key Actor in Shaping Data Infrastructure Space / Fieke Jansen, 133
At the End of the World, Plant a Tree / Adam Greenfield, 147
Building Collective Sovereignty / Common Knowledge, 179
Sovereign Imaginaries: How corporate digital imaginary are endangering our political practices / Paola Pierri, 199
Geofilters: Vertical Sight and the Tropikós Turn / Juan Pablo Sossa, 231
Postdigital / Thomas Ramge, 231
Talk to Me: A Multilingual Installation as a boundary Object for Inclusion in Digital and Public Participation / Bianca Herlo, Sandra Stark and Malte Bergmann, 247
Why Feminist Digital Policy Matters / Francesca Schmidt, 269
Researchers Gone Wild: Origins and Endpoints of Image Training Datasets Created “In the Wild” / Adam Harvey and Jules LaPlace, 289
Digital Sovereignty in the Pandemic City / Mona Sloane, 311
WannaScry! An Interview with Danja Vasiliev / Danja Vasiliev and Daniel Irrgang, 321
Digitalization of Art Exhibitions in Times of COVID-19: Three case studies in China / Yang Jing and Li Zhenhua, 339
a.username? – A Profile Without Qualities: Exploring Amazon through Art and Literature / Søren Bro Pold and Christian Ulrik Andersen, 357
Prototyping Digital Sovereignty / Hagit Keysar, Elizabeth Calderon Lüning and Andreas Unteidig, 371
Viruses as Phenomena of De Facto Destabilization an Potential Subversion / Siegfried Zielinski, 397
Digital Sovereignty / Julia Pohle and Thorsten Thiel, 47
Algorithmic Sovereignty beyond the Leviathan and the Wicker Man / Denisa Kera, 69
Out of Balance: The Impact of Digitalization on Social Cohesion / Gesche Joost, 91
Digital Capitalisms’ Crises of Sovereignty / Philipp Staab, 107
Agency for All, Privacy for None / Claudio Guarnieri, 121
The State: A Key Actor in Shaping Data Infrastructure Space / Fieke Jansen, 133
At the End of the World, Plant a Tree / Adam Greenfield, 147
Building Collective Sovereignty / Common Knowledge, 179
Sovereign Imaginaries: How corporate digital imaginary are endangering our political practices / Paola Pierri, 199
Geofilters: Vertical Sight and the Tropikós Turn / Juan Pablo Sossa, 231
Postdigital / Thomas Ramge, 231
Talk to Me: A Multilingual Installation as a boundary Object for Inclusion in Digital and Public Participation / Bianca Herlo, Sandra Stark and Malte Bergmann, 247
Why Feminist Digital Policy Matters / Francesca Schmidt, 269
Researchers Gone Wild: Origins and Endpoints of Image Training Datasets Created “In the Wild” / Adam Harvey and Jules LaPlace, 289
Digital Sovereignty in the Pandemic City / Mona Sloane, 311
WannaScry! An Interview with Danja Vasiliev / Danja Vasiliev and Daniel Irrgang, 321
Digitalization of Art Exhibitions in Times of COVID-19: Three case studies in China / Yang Jing and Li Zhenhua, 339
a.username? – A Profile Without Qualities: Exploring Amazon through Art and Literature / Søren Bro Pold and Christian Ulrik Andersen, 357
Prototyping Digital Sovereignty / Hagit Keysar, Elizabeth Calderon Lüning and Andreas Unteidig, 371
Viruses as Phenomena of De Facto Destabilization an Potential Subversion / Siegfried Zielinski, 397
