What does ‘digital autonomy’ mean? Are we even using the right terminology here? And what role does digital civil society play in shaping autonomous digital infrastructures? Episode 2 of our ‘re:publicast Special’ addresses these questions. 

Markus Beckedahl talks to Julia Pohle about this. She heads the ‘Politics of Digitalisation’ research group at the Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB). In her work, she examines the interplay between technology, politics, social norms and power relations.

re:publica co-founder and CEO Andreas Gebhard speaks with re:publicast host Jonas Ross on why real encounters and analogue exchanges are so crucial for discussing the future of the digital society. How can we get even more people involved in shaping the digital space? How can we remain independent in times of economic challenges? How can we hold on to digital utopias in times of polycrisis? This episode, recorded during re:publica Hamburg 2025, addresses all these questions and more.

In the first episode of the re:publicast special ‘Digital Civil Society,’ we examine how the impact of digital civil society can be strengthened and how power relations in the digital space can be distributed more fairly.