I Am Dissolving into Categories and Labels - Agency Affordances for Embedding and Practicing Digital Sovereignty

Pop Stefanija, Ana; Pierson, Jo

I Am Dissolving into Categories and Labels - Agency Affordances for Embedding and Practicing Digital Sovereignty

dc.contributor.author	Pop Stefanija, Ana
dc.contributor.author	Pierson, Jo
dc.date.accessioned	2023-08-29T12:09:28Z
dc.date.available	2023-08-29T12:09:28Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description.abstract	While the notion of digital sovereignty is loaded with a multitude of meanings referring to various actors, values and contexts, this paper is interested in how to actualize individual digital sovereignty. We do so by introducing the concept of agency affordances, which we see as a precondition for achieving digital sovereignty. We understand this notion as the ability to exercise power to, as autonomy and agency for (digital) self-sovereignty, and as power over the infrastructural sovereignty of the privately owned automated decision-making systems (ADM) systems of digital media platforms. Building our characterization of digital sovereignty on an empirical inquiry into individuals' requirements for agency, our analysis shows that digital sovereignty consists of two distinct but interrelated elements - data sovereignty and algorithmic sovereignty. Enabling practicable digital sovereignty through agency affordances, however, will require going beyond the just technical and extending towards the wider societal (infra)structures. We outline some initial steps on how to achieve that.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	This work has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) (grant no.: 16DII111, 16DII112, 16DII113, 16DII114, 16DII115, 16DII116, 16DII117 – „Deutsches Internet-Institut“)
dc.identifier.citation	Pop Stefanija, A., & Pierson, J. (2023). I Am Dissolving into Categories and Labels—Agency Affordances for Embedding and Practicing Digital Sovereignty. Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2022: Practicing Sovereignty, 39–53. https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.CP/4.4
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.cp/4.4
dc.identifier.eissn	2510-7666
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/75
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Weizenbaum Institute
dc.relation.ispartof	https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.CP/4
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Weizenbaum Conference Proceedings
dc.rights	open access
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Technology (Applied sciences)	en
dc.subject	News media, journalism, publishing	en
dc.subject	Technology Assessment	en
dc.subject	Interactive, electronic Media	en
dc.subject	digitalization	en
dc.subject	algorithm	en
dc.subject	data	en
dc.subject	digital media	en
dc.subject	competence	en
dc.subject	self-determination	en
dc.subject	Technik, Technologie	de
dc.subject	Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen	de
dc.subject	data sovereignty	de
dc.subject	algorithmic sovereignty	de
dc.subject	agency	de
dc.subject	autonomy	de
dc.subject	affordances	de
dc.subject	agency affordances	de
dc.subject	Technikfolgenabschätzung	de
dc.subject	interaktive, elektronische Medien	de
dc.subject	Digitalisierung	de
dc.subject	Algorithmus	de
dc.subject	Daten	de
dc.subject	Digitale Medien	de
dc.subject	Kompetenz	de
dc.subject	Selbstbestimmung	de
dc.subject.ddc	600 Technik
dc.subject.ddc	070 Publizistische Medien, Journalismus & Verlagswesen
dc.subject.ddc	300 Sozialwissenschaften
dc.title	I Am Dissolving into Categories and Labels - Agency Affordances for Embedding and Practicing Digital Sovereignty
dc.type	ConferencePaper
dc.type.status	publishedVersion
dcmi.type	Text
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.booktitle	Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2022
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplace	Berlin
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend	53
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart	39