Dear colleagues,
I wanted to share the paper, by Niels ten Oever (et.al.), (with
permission),
since I find it relevant for this Working group:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/poi3.422
"Sanctions and infrastructural ideologies: Assessing the material
shaping of EU digital sovereignty in response to the war in Ukraine"
Authors: Niels ten Oever, Clement Perarnaud, John Kristoff, Moritz
Müller, Max Resing, Arturo Filasto, Chris Kanich
First published: 11 September 2024
https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.422
Abstract
In this paper, we interrogate the sanctions instated against Russian
media by the European Union (EU) in response to Russia's aggression in
Ukraine. We do this in three ways. First, we present the outcome of
extensive network measurements that show the heterogeneous
implementation of the sanctions in EU Member States. Second, we explain
how the sanctions fit the EU's digital sovereignty agenda. And third, we
theorise the EU's digital sovereignty policies and sanctions as the
emergence of a repressive state apparatus that forms a metagovernance
regime with the ideological state apparatus of multistakeholder internet
governance. We explain how networks are shaped in the dialectical
relation between the ideological and repressive state apparatuses by
showing how multistakeholder internet governance aims to stay
politically neutral to accommodate the politics of different repressive
state apparatuses. In turn, repressive state apparatuses define their
demands in a technologically neutral way so multistakeholder internet
governance can continue to develop and adapt communication networks.
This research combines methods from Computer Science with theoretical
frameworks from European Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Media
Studies and International Relations. Through this work, we aim to
contribute to the practice of interdisciplinary analysis of
communication networks and debates on digital sovereignty, European
infrastructuralisation, and internet governance.
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