Max Münßinger
Geography, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Brief description of the doctoral project
In my PhD project, I am researching the process of the emergence of sovereign European (cloud) infrastructures. This quest for independence is repeatedly coming up against its limits: The autonomous power of disposal over data becomes more and more important, the possibilities to do without the services of Google & Co. more and more limited.
With an interdisciplinary, sociological perspective, my project opens the view for the different interests in the field and shows which conflicts and contradictions arise in the process of infrastructuring digital sovereignty.
In this way, my project aims to contribute to a more differentiated view of the shaping of the digital transformation in the EU and to provide perspectives on the question “What kind of digitization and for whom do we want in Germany and Europe?”.
Member of the Working Group on “Data Sharing in the EU”
Data exchange in the EU: New rules in the Data Governance Act (Part 2/2)
The infrastructuralisation process is to be driven forward by the Data Governance Act. The DGA is intended as a control tool to regulate data exchange processes, but there are doubts about its control potential.
Data exchange in the EU: Infrastructure (Part 1/2)
Geopolitical considerations make digital sovereignty of the European area necessary. An important step towards this is European data sovereignty through the creation of federated data spaces.
Publications
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From Neoliberal Openness to Sovereign Openness
Analysing Imaginaries of European Digital Policies
Journal articlehttps://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2025.2507606Project: GC-Prom