Public Lecture Series "Taming the Machines"Public Lecture: How to Achieve Digital Sovereignty in Europe?

22 October 2025

"Taming the Machines" public lecture series will kick off this winter semester on October 22, 2025 with the lecture "How can Europe achieve digital sovereignty?" by Prof. Dr. José van Dijck (Utrecht University). The growing dominance of two global platform ecosystems has left European countries to rely on American and Chinese digital infrastructures—affecting markets, labor, social practices, and democracies. While Europe focuses on regulation, emerging technologies like generative AI and geopolitical changes make the infrastructural perspective more poignant. This lecture addresses two questions: What public values are fundamental to Europe’s platform societies, and what responsibilities do companies, governments, and citizens have in building alternative, sustainable platform ecosystem based on those values?

About the lecture

When: 22.10.2025, 14:15 - 15:45 CEST/Berlin time

Where:

• If you'll join us on-site, you will find us here: Flü­gelbau Ost, 2. OG, Raum O 221, Ed­mund-Siemers-Allee 1, 20146 Ham­burg
• For joining us virtual at the Zoom Webinar: The access data for the webinar will be sent to you by e-mail after registration on our research group’s website and are valid for all lectures of the series.

Registration and complete program of „Taming the Machines“ lecture series:
https://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/en/inst/ab/eit/taming-the-machines/winter25-26.html