Beyond the Ban: TikTok and the Politics of Digital Sovereignty in the EU and US
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F48546054%3A_____%2F25%3AN0000021" target="_blank" >RIV/48546054:_____/25:N0000021 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/10461" target="_blank" >https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/10461</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/pag.10461" target="_blank" >10.17645/pag.10461</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Beyond the Ban: TikTok and the Politics of Digital Sovereignty in the EU and US
Original language description
This article explores the emergence of TikTok as a central issue in contemporary debates on foreign interference, platform regulation, and the governance of transnational data flows. Both the European Union and the United States have expressed concerns about TikTok’s potential risks and have implemented various regulations. Through a comparative analysis of EU and US regulatory discourses, this article examines how claims to digital sovereignty are mobilised in efforts to govern the Chinese-based platform. In doing so, this study advances ongoing debates on the regulation of large-scale digital platforms and data infrastructures. Our analysis reveals that whereas the EU emphasises regulatory autonomy, public health, and democratic integrity in governing cross-border data flows, the US frames TikTok in a more overtly securitised approach rooted in techno-nationalism and strategic infrastructural decoupling from China. More broadly, the article also argues that when framed as a countermeasure to foreign interference, digital sovereignty is increasingly rearticulated as a security-centric concept that subsumes broader societal harms, and it risks assuming authoritarian connotations.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EH23_025%2F0008692" target="_blank" >EH23_025/0008692: Foreign Interference in The Context of Geopolitical and Technological Change</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Politics and Governance
ISSN
2183-2463
e-ISSN
2183-2463
Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
8.10.2025
Country of publishing house
PT - PORTUGAL
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
10461
UT code for WoS article
001612607200007
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105021436994