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Andreas Baur Jan 9, 2023

Happy to share that my article ‘European Dreams of the Cloud: Imagining Innovation and Political Control’ has just been published by @Geopolitics (and it's open access!)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14650045.2022.2151902
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My paper demonstrates how the sociotechnical #imaginaries of 3 European #cloud projects reveal a performative coupling of #innovation and political ideas of control, #territoriality and #sovereignty. I analyse how Microsoft’s cloud, Bundescloud and #GaiaX …

European Dreams of the Cloud: Imagining Innovation and Political Control

Recently, several private and political cloud initiatives emerged in Europe. This paper demonstrates how the sociotechnical imaginaries of three European cloud projects reveal a performative coupl...

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Andreas Baur Jan 9, 2023

… have been integrating #privacy and data security issues into cloud imaginaries that traditionally highlight progress and innovation. States and cloud providers link and merge allegedly opposing technological aspects of innovation and politicised ideas of control such as #DigitalSovereignty. This paper shows how cloud imaginaries shape and interact with current developments in Europe: a politicisation of forms of control; a shift from a purely technical understanding of control to a…

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Andreas Baur

… #geopolotical one erecting borders and territories in IT infrastructures.

Thanks to all friends and colleagues (e.g. @UvAMaatschappijGedrag, @IZEW and more) for your help and valuable feedback, to my interviewees and of course to @digilog_bw and @ForumPrivatheit for funding parts of this research!