European Dreams of the Cloud: Imagining Innovation and Political Control

Baur, Albrecht

doi:10.1080/14650045.2022.2151902

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“…At first sight, talking about sovereignty in relation to cloud computing may seem odd. In practice, ‘the cloud’ means ‘on demand remote use of IT services’ (Baur, 2023, p. 2) that provides users with fast and flexible computing capacity and storage space. Most of us use cloud technology every day when we send emails, check bank accounts or post on social media.…”

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“…Privacy is not only a fundamental right, it can also be a competitive advantage’, warning US cloud providers that they may lose access to the European market. The Court of Justice also questioned the transfer of personal European data to the United States, setting the tone for a European alternative (Baur, 2023, p. 4).…”

Section: Digital Sovereignty and The Geoeconomic Turn Of The Digital ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The break with the EU's previous digital agenda, emphasizing free trade and global competition, may thus be overstated (Celeste, 2021, p. 216). The direct involvement of foreign tech players in the construction of industrial data spaces suggests that the digital sovereignty agenda is as much about control as it is an adjusted version of market cosmopolitanism (Baur, 2023).…”

Section: Three Scenarios: Constitutional Tolerance Hegemony or Collapsementioning

confidence: 99%

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The Discursive Struggle for Digital Sovereignty: Security, Economy, Rights and the Cloud Project Gaia‐X

Adler‐Nissen,

Eggeling

2024

J of Common Market Studies

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This article explores the struggle for ‘digital sovereignty’ in the European Union (EU). A seeming contradiction – the internet, after all, spans the globe – digital sovereignty is portrayed as the winning geoeconomic formula to keep the EU secure, competitive and democratic in the digital future. Approaching digital sovereignty as a discursive claim and analysing it through a case study of the European cloud project Gaia‐X, we show that there is no singular understanding of digital sovereignty in the EU. Instead, we identify six different conceptions across the domains of security, economy and rights. This article outlines three scenarios for how the digital sovereignty agenda may develop and thus shape the EU's digital policy and its relations with the rest of the world: constitutional tolerance (where the conceptions co‐exist), hegemony (where one conception dominates) or collapse (where the agenda falls apart due to inbuilt conceptual contradictions).

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The Discursive Struggle for Digital Sovereignty: Security, Economy, Rights and the Cloud Project Gaia‐X

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Eggeling

2024

J of Common Market Studies

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“…In fact, there are a number of European technology projects in the pipeline, often below the radar of public attention and overshadowed by Silicon Valley rhetoric. Besides big flagship initiatives such as the European Human Brain Project (Mahfoud, 2021) or the European cloud infrastructure Gaia-X (Baur, 2023), a series of digital tech projects aim at social change rather than market dominance. In the area of search, there is a multiplicity of search engines, applications, and initiatives that seek to provide an alternative to hegemonic search engines like Google.…”

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Advancing search engine studies: The evolution of Google critique and intervention

2023

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In this piece, which frames the special issue, “The State of Google Critique and Intervention,” we provide an overview of research focusing on Google as an object of critical study, fleshing out the European interventions that actively attempt to address its dominance. The article begins by mapping out key areas of articulating a Google critique, from the initial focus on ranking and profiling to the subsequent scrutiny of user exploitation and competitive imbalance. As such, it situates the contributions to this special issue concerning search engine bias and discrimination, the ethics of Google Autocomplete, Google's content moderation, the commodification of engine audiences and the political economy of technical systems in a broader history of Google criticism. It then proceeds to contextualize the European developments that put forward alternatives and draws attention to legislative efforts to curb the influence of big tech. We conclude by identifying a few avenues for continued critical study, such as Google's infrastructural bundling of generative artificial intelligence with existing products, to emphasize the importance of intervention in the future.

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Blockchain as a Breakthrough in Technological Innovation: Policy Narratives and Future Imaginaries of China’s Strategies

Xu,

Guo,

et al. 2024

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media

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European Dreams of the Cloud: Imagining Innovation and Political Control

Cited by 8 publications

References 31 publications

The Discursive Struggle for Digital Sovereignty: Security, Economy, Rights and the Cloud Project Gaia‐X

The Discursive Struggle for Digital Sovereignty: Security, Economy, Rights and the Cloud Project Gaia‐X

Advancing search engine studies: The evolution of Google critique and intervention

Blockchain as a Breakthrough in Technological Innovation: Policy Narratives and Future Imaginaries of China’s Strategies

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