This prescient book explores how the process of European integration is becoming increasingly intertwined with digital innovation policies, regulations and infrastructures. It discusses how developments around digital data and technologies such as AI are driven by, and at the same time contribute to shape, distinctively European institutions, identities, practices and values.
Leading experts investigate digital innovations, policies and regulations in Europe, also by contrast with parallel developments in other jurisdictions such as the US, to reveal the imaginaries, visions, and expectations underpinning the so-called European way to digital innovation. Engaging with ongoing debates about digital regulation, governance, values and ethics, the volume examines how Europe is re-imagined and recast, or contested and unmade, alongside the emergence of novel digital worlds, and ultimately investigates the mutual reconfigurations of information and power in modern knowledge-intensive societies.
Project Europe is an essential resource for scholars and students of Science & Technology Studies (STS), European politics and policy, and cognate disciplines in the Social Sciences & the Humanities. Presenting both theoretical analyses and empirical case studies, it is also beneficial to policymakers and practitioners in regulation and governance, digital technology law and public policy.
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This set of brilliant essays outlines the intertwined history of digital politics and the emergence of so-called European values as a particular mode of geopolitical power. It will stand as a monument to a particular epoch and serve as an important resource for future scholars seeking to understand the European predicament and the global concentration of digital power. -- Klaus Hoeyer, University of Copenhagen, Denmark The editors have put together an impressive collection of chapters written by leading scholars. Considering how to use digital technologies and policies to achieve a democratic Europe is extremely timely. The chapters in this book will help policymakers and researchers understand the challenges, and the opportunities for using digitalisation to strengthen European solidarity. -- Sally Wyatt, Maastricht University, the Netherlands Never has a book been more timely than Project Europe. The urgent need for European countries to build a common digital infrastructure, independent from Big Tech in the US and China and based on public values, transpires in every chapter. Therefore, this book is a must-read not only for scholars and students, but particularly for policymakers who strive for digital sovereigntya project that requires enormous commitment from all European allies. -- José van Dijck, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Contents
Foreword: The making of digital Europe viii
Introduction: Project Europe xiii
Luca Marelli, Jim Dratwa, Gert Verschraegen and Ine Van Hoyweghen
1 Territorial frictions of digital innovation 1
Brice Laurent
2 Problematizing digital sovereignty, constructing Europe:
Warfare, regulation, and enemization through digital devices 22
Marie Alauzen
3 Digital Europe from below: Alternative routes to the Digital
Decade 48
Astrid Mager
4 Policy imaginaries of European citizen-patients: European
integration and the digital infrastructuring of healthcare 68
Ulrike Felt
5 States of representation: Reading Europe through its genomes 89
Nicolņ Caporale, Benedetta Muda, Oliviero Leonardi and
Giuseppe Testa
6 Constituting a sovereign European identity through AI ethics:
A critical exploration 107
Simone Casiraghi and Niels van Dijk
7 Solidarity in the digital era: A European approach 133
Barbara Prainsack and Marjolein Lanzing
8 Sovereigns and subjects in the digital age 151
Sheila Jasanoff
Edited by Luca Marelli, Assistant Professor in Ethics and Governance of Health Research, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, University of Milan, Italy, Jim Dratwa, European Commission, Belgium, Gert Verschraegen, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Antwerp and Ine Van Hoyweghen, Professor of Sociology, Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven, Belgium
