Der digitale Bürger und seine Identität

The notion of identity already is enigmatic and becomes even more puzzling and complex with the digitization: what is deemed an individual identity is as much the result of an individual’s voluntary activity as it is the product of involuntary data-collections by third parties. These processes take place in a highly interdependent network of technological methods of managing identities, legal frameworks for privacy protection and authentication-requirements for administrative and economical transactions. Further complications provide both market-forces as well as the political claims to the participatory dimension of identity. Hence analysing what constitutes and shapes digital identities necessitates a multidisciplinary effort drawing from legal, technical, organizational, psychological as well as media-theoretical approaches. Using the European and German situation as examples this volume investigates the current developments of digital identity and its intersection to citizenship.
With contributions by:
Jens Bender, Tile von Damm, Johannes Eichenhofer, Christoph Engemann, Hannes Federrath, Christoph Gusy, Dominik Herrmann, Oliver Hinz, Gerrit Hornung, Jan Muntermann, Lexi Pimenidis, Heiko Roßnagel, Jan Schallaböck, Jan Zibuschka