The Social Life of XG – Digital infrastructures and the reconfiguration of sovereignty and imagined communities

To understand how new technologies are involved in shaping new communities, new notions of boundaries and sovereignty, this project explores notions of XG in different dimensions: a) at the level of institutional and policy frameworks; b) among technology developers such as telecommunications companies and innovation centres; and c) in local environments that we expect to be strongly affected by digital transformation, in neighbourhoods, workplaces or health services. SoLiXG considers these issues as questions of socio-cultural change in order to understand how XG, and the ideas associated with it, attain social life. We bring together perspectives from migration and cultural studies, political science, sociology and queer feminist technoscience from the EU and the UK, as well as a range of partners working on the materiality of infrastructures, emancipatory applications of technology or the development of digital infrastructures.