Events & Publications
24-25 March 2027 | Digital Sovereignty in Conflict
The DIGISOV project, funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), and the Research Chair in Digital Regulation, Paris-Panthéon-Assas University are organizing the “Digital Sovereignty in Conflict” international conference, which will examine the tensions,...
Article | Mapping digital sovereignty in the European Union: A political economy of bans against Chinese technology
Riccardo Nanni and Francesca Musiani, “Analyser la souveraineté numérique au sein de l’Union européenne : une économie politique des interdictions de Huawei”, Hérodote n° 199, 2025, p. 139-156 This article observes EU countries’ quest for digital sovereignty vis-à-vis...
Article | Towards federated sovereignty? Harnessing decentralized platforms for European digital autonomy
Ksenia Ermoshina and Francesca Musiani, “Towards federated sovereignty? Harnessing decentralized platforms for European digital autonomy”, Réseaux n° 254, 2025, p. 77-112 Federated messaging services, traditionally considered “alternative”, are currently experiencing...
Book | Digital Authoritarianism in the Making
Françoise Daucé, Benjamin Loveluck & Francesca Musiani (eds.), Digital Authoritarianism in the Making. Repression and Resistance on the Russian Internet, The MIT Press, 2025 Available in open access. This is the revised and updated translation of the book Genèse...
9 December 2025 | Digital Dependencies
The DIGISOV project, with the support of the Chair in Digital regulation at University of Paris-Panthéon-Assas, is organizing a workshop bringing together researchers and practitioners to discuss “Digital Dependencies” on Tuesday 9 December 2025 from 2.00 to 6.00 p.m....
Article | Governing the ‘Governors’ of online speech: a review of the Digital Services Act’s first steps in regulating social media platforms
Anastasia Iliopoulou-Penot, “Governing the 'Governors' of online speech: a review of the Digital Services Act's first steps in regulating social media platforms”, Yearbook of European Law, 2025 The Digital Services Act (DSA) introduces a comprehensive set of rules...
2025-2026 | DIGISOV research seminar
The ANR DIGISOV project, “Digital Governance and Sovereignty in a Fractured World: Competing States and the Circulation of Norms,” is continuing its series of research seminars for the 2025–2026 academic year. These seminars provide an opportunity to deepen our...
Article | Souveraineté numérique et concurrence des régimes politiques : origines et perspectives
Publication as part of the special issue « Constitutionnalisme numérique et approches critiques en droit et technologie » in the Revue des droits et libertés fondamentaux, edited by Manon Altwegg-Boussac and Afroditi Marketou. Benjamin Loveluck, « Souveraineté...
Article | China’s strategic approach to tech diplomacy in a time of global uncertainty
Zhao Alexandre Huang and Xiang Meng, “China’s strategic approach to tech diplomacy in a time of global uncertainty”, Global Policy, online first, 2025 In the wake of U.S.-China technological competition and the COVID-19 pandemic, “tech diplomacy” has gained prominence...
Article | Quand fragmentation d’Internet rime avec profits
Alors qu’à l’origine, Internet devait se construire sur un modèle distribué, la fameuse toile, sa structure tend à se fracturer. En cause, un double mouvement de consolidation et de privatisation du réseau qui fragmente Internet en un ensemble de réseaux séparés,...
Article | Géopolitique(s) de l’intelligence artificielle
Une nouvelle intelligence générative a fait irruption dans les mondes numériques : DeepSeek. Cette arrivée confirme qu’une nouvelle course à l’innovation, des années après la conquête spatiale, oppose les principaux acteurs des technologies de l’information et de la...
Article | Safer spaces by design? Federated socio-technical architectures in content moderation
Users of secure messaging tools, especially in communities attuned to the risks of state-based and other forms of censorship, increasingly hesitate to delegate their data to centralised platforms, endowed with substantial power to filter content and block user...