"Digitale Souveränität": Kontextualisierung des Phänomens in der Domäne der medial vermittelten öffentlichen Kommunikation unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Reader Analytics

The term 'digital sovereignty' is increasingly used in the context of the discussion about 'digital transformation'. Sovereignty in the digital world is considered a prerequisite for being able to help shape the digital transformation in all functional areas of society. However, the term 'digital sovereignty' has so far been used primarily in a prescriptive-normative sense; a differentiated theoretical work and concrete contextualizations for different social functional areas are still a desideratum. This working paper therefore sets itself the task of contextualizing the idea of digital sovereignty in the domain of public communication mediated by the media: The question arises where exactly sovereignty as a specific object of investigation in media society and media communication plays a role. This requires a conceptual-abstract version that goes beyond the mere enumeration of obvious phenomena or normatively influenced demands ('freedom of opinion', 'informational self-determination').