Under this year’s theme, VICESSE together with the AIT will host again the social science track: “Sovereignty and Solidarity in the Digital Age – a critical view”. The social science track will take place on the 5th of June 2025 and aims at bringing together a variety of critical actors – from the social sciences, legal sciences, activists and technology developers – to think about the current state of affairs in the field of digitally (dis-)empowered societies.

Key topics that should be addressed are the following:

• Challenges to solidarity and sovereignty in the digital age: exploring how digital technologies disrupt solidarity and sovereignty, including deliberate forms of disruption

• The role of infrastructures and actors: investigating how techno-social and regulatory infrastructures, as well as the actors who design, maintain, and govern them, impact solidarity and sovereignty in the digitalized world

• Opportunities for strengthening solidarity and sovereignty: analysing how digital technologies, policies, or grassroots initiatives offer pathways to reinforce solidarity and sovereignty

• Imagining alternative futures: envisioning alternative trajectories for a digitalized world that foster and reinvent solidarity and sovereignty

Full description and the call for papers see here.

We are looking forward to your contributions!