AUTHOR=Musiani Francesca 

TITLE=Reassessing “infrastructuring digital sovereignty”: digital self-determination as a set of infrastructure-embedded practices

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Communication

VOLUME=Volume 10 - 2025

YEAR=2025

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1562072

DOI=10.3389/fcomm.2025.1562072

ISSN=2297-900X

ABSTRACT=This perspective contribution takes stock of recent research conducted through the theoretical lens, grounded in science and technology studies (STS) and more specifically infrastructure studies, which I have previously defined as “infrastructuring digital sovereignty” (Musiani, 2022). With this concept, I address “digital sovereignty” beyond its strictly legal interpretations and its rhetorical uses in political discourses by understanding it “from within” as an ongoing series of negotiations, practices, struggles, and controversies embedded in infrastructures, their creation, their development, and their maintenance. The contribution will discuss how, via two recently started projects, French and global interdisciplinary teams seek to provide an empirical and theoretical understanding, informed by the social sciences, of digital sovereignty as a set of processes and co-constructed techniques, practices, and norms “in the making.”