Dr. Sanja Ivić, Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of European Studies, wrote the chapter “Creating Digital European Citizenship and the Digital European Public Sphere”, which is published in the edited volume Digital Development of the European Union (ed. by David Ramiro Troitiño, Tanel Kerikmäe; Springer, 2023), that relying on a multidisciplinary approach, analyzes the impact of the digital revolution to the European Union, and examines legal, political, ethical, economic, identity and many other aspects of digital transformation in the European Union. This collection includes 23 chapters written by experts in various fields of research, and includes recommendations on future possibilities of implementing digital reforms in the European Union.
In the chapter “Creating Digital European Citizenship and the Digital European Public Sphere”, Dr. Sanja Ivić points out the relevance of postmodern theory for creating a theoretical framework for new concepts included in the digital revolution, such as digital European citizenship and digital European public sphere. Postmodernism applied to European studies highlights the importance of the ideas of polyphonic and fluid identities, as one of the ways to solve the problem of the digital divide and many other forms of inequality within the European Union. The postmodern idea of identity applied to the idea of digital European citizenship implies decentralization, as well as the reconstruction of essentialist elements (which lead to the digital divide and the homogenization of ideas of European identity and values, as well as the European public sphere).