Julia Rone
Biographic Data
| ID | 1263395 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Rone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Rone |
| SIGNATURE | RONE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0937-0270 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Laggards or Mavericks? Czechia and Hungary’s Divergent Responses to the EU's Changing Industrial Policy Regime
There is widespread agreement among scholars that the “geo-dirigiste turn” in the EU and the resurgent spirit of industrial policymaking have thus far only served the interests of core countries, thereby reinforcing core–periphery dynamics on the continent. However, despite their shared semi-peripheral status in the transnational division of labour, Central and Eastern European states such as Czechia and Hungary have navigated the changing indust…
From tech wars to tech culture wars? ‘Values shaping’ and ‘values signaling’ in AI system design and governance
As Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are becoming increasingly sophisticated in emulating human communication and expressing social values, they also gain greater relevance for questions of culture and identity. This article conceptualizes and illustrates major ways in which this value dimension becomes salient by providing an overview of conflicts over embedding social values into generative AI systems. While values are often unintentionally …
Where have all the Pirates gone? strategic party interactions in the electoral stagnation, rise, and fall of the Pirates
Reversing the Privatisation of the Public Sphere
The emergence of social media companies, and the spread of disinformation as a result of their “surveillance capitalist” business model, has opened wide political and regulatory debates across the globe. The EU has often positioned itself as a normative leader and standard-setter, and has increasingly attempted to assert its sovereignty in relation to social media platforms. In the first part of this article, we argue that the EU has achieved nei…
The 2024 European Parliament Elections in Bulgaria
Les élections du Parlement européen de 2024 en Bulgarie
Stop the Pact'! The Foreign Policy Impact of the Far-Right Campaigning Against the Global Compact for Migration
In 2018, the UN Global Compact for Migration (GCM) was signed by a majority of countries. The GCM was the first intergovernmentally negotiated agreement, prepared under the auspices of the United Nations, to cover all dimensions of international migration in a holistic and comprehensive manner. Seventeen countries, among them Italy, Austria, Hungary and Poland, abstained or voted against this non-binding agreement as they feared interference in t…
The sovereign cloud’ in Europe
In the wake of the pervasive digitalisation of industry, the disruption of global supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a geopolitical race for the development of artificial intelligence models, the European Union has pivoted towards promoting ‘digital sovereignty’ across the technological stack. The paper looks more specifically at the cloud layer and analyses the draft European Union Cloud Services Scheme (EUCS) launched by the Europe…
Beyond 'Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
What are the impacts of migration on those directly involved in it: those who stay and those who leave? The deceptive simplicity of this question becomes obvious once we look at the diverse and mutually contradictory empirical answers it has received. On the basis of Web of Science data, we provide a mapping of existing studies on migration’s impacts, which reveals a clearly pronounced modularity between different disciplines and theoretical appr…
Sovereignty in Conflict
Beyond Brexit? Public Participation in Decision-Making on Campaign Data During and After Referendum Campaigns
While the Brexit referendum campaign has been extensively researched, media, regulatory bodies, and academics have often talked at cross-purposes. A strong focus on Cambridge Analytica’s role in the 2016 referendum, despite official investigations concluding the company had only limited involvement in the campaign, has distracted attention from more mundane but highly controversial data practices, including selling voters’ data to third parties o…
The shape of the cloud
The article analyses local contestation of data centres in the Dutch province of North Holland. I explore why and how local councillors and citizen groups mobilized against data centres and demanded democratization of decision-making processes about digital infrastructure. This analysis is used as a vantage point to problematize existing policy and academic narratives on digital sovereignty in Europe. I show, first, that most debates on digital s…
The Politics of Emigration in Europe
While the politics of immigration in destination countries has been a prominent topic of research in comparative political science in Europe, the same does not apply to emigration and to the perspective of peripherical EU countries. This is true even though the flows of people moving from east to west and from south to north pose potentially significant challenges to ‘sending countries’ in Europe. This article sets up a research agenda aimed at c…
Sovereignty in Conflict
The Politicisation Game
As the third-largest exporting country in the world, Germany is a clear beneficiary and proponent of free trade. Few, therefore, expected the magnitude of contention that emerged within Germany during the negotiations between the EU and the United States for a transatlantic trade deal (TTIP). This paper explores the politicisation process of TTIP within the context of the broader transformations of German politics including not only the entry of …
The politics of data infrastructures contestation
In our times of increasing screen dependency, the data infrastructures making possible ‘online’ or ‘virtual’ modalities of work and leisure have been increasingly contested. From the Netherlands to Ireland and Chile, activists have challenged the environmental consequences of energy- and water-intensive data centres, as well as the often undemocratic ways of deciding on their construction. In this piece, I draw on insights from the field of socia…
Far right alternative news media as ‘indignation mobilization mechanisms’
The paper analyses the role of alternative far-right media in promoting and organizing mobilization against the Global Compact for Migration – the first intergovernmentally negotiated agreement, prepared under the auspices of the United Nations, covering all dimensions of international migration in a holistic and comprehensive manner. Exploring four European alternative far-right media: PI-News in Germany, Il Primato Nazionale in Italy, the UK lo…
Conflicts of sovereignty over EU trade policy
Instrumentalising sovereignty claims in British pro- and anti-Brexit mobilisations
Despite the growing literature on Brexit, specifically, and conflicts of sovereignty, more generally, there has been insufficient research on how the concept of sovereignty has been used in citizen campaigns and street protests across the United Kingdom – a form of ‘counter-democracy’ through which people attempted to oversee the post-referendum political process. Combining qualitative content analysis of campaign websites with a discourse-networ…
Fake profiles, trolls, and digital paranoia
While social movement studies have long focused on the formation and dynamics of social movement coalitions and “boundary spanning’, much less attention has been paid to why and how social movement alliances break down and dissolve. Expanding theoretical reflections on the ‘dark side of digital politics’, the current paper bridges critical Internet research and research on movement coalitions and explores how subversive digital media practices de…
Enemies of the people”? Diverging discourses on sovereignty in media coverage of Brexit
Backsliding of the left
The paper explores how the leaders of parliamentary represented parties in Bulgaria discussed Fidesz's policies in the period 2010-2019. Furthermore, it attempts to explain why Orbán's brand of conservative illiberalism has emerged as a normative ideal for a number of Bulgarian political parties, including the Bulgarian socialists after 2016. The paper argues that so-called ‘democratic backsliding' in CEE, and Bulgaria more specifically, cannot b…
Introduction
This article belongs to a forthcoming special cluster, “Contention Politics and International Statebuilding in Southeast Europe” guest-edited by Nemanja Džuverovic, Julia Rone and Tom Junes
Voice after Exit? Bulgarian Civic Activists between Protest and Emigration
This article belongs to a forthcoming special cluster, “Contention Politics and International Statebuilding in Southeast Europe” guest-edited by Nemanja Džuverovic, Julia Rone and Tom Junes. Historically, civic activists who left their home countries in the wake of protests would either risk disappearing in anonymity or become engaged in political “exile networks.” However, since the outbreak of the “global wave” of protest, the ability of activi…
Contesting Austerity and Free Trade in the Eu
Beyond 'Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
What are the impacts of migration on those directly involved in it: those who stay and those who leave? The deceptive simplicity of this question becomes obvious once we look at the diverse and mutually contradictory empirical answers it has received. On the basis of Web of Science data, we provide a mapping of existing studies on migration’s impacts, which reveals a clearly pronounced modularity between different disciplines and theoretical appr…
The sovereign cloud’ in Europe
In the wake of the pervasive digitalisation of industry, the disruption of global supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a geopolitical race for the development of artificial intelligence models, the European Union has pivoted towards promoting ‘digital sovereignty’ across the technological stack. The paper looks more specifically at the cloud layer and analyses the draft European Union Cloud Services Scheme (EUCS) launched by the Europe…
Backsliding of the left
The paper explores how the leaders of parliamentary represented parties in Bulgaria discussed Fidesz's policies in the period 2010-2019. Furthermore, it attempts to explain why Orbán's brand of conservative illiberalism has emerged as a normative ideal for a number of Bulgarian political parties, including the Bulgarian socialists after 2016. The paper argues that so-called ‘democratic backsliding' in CEE, and Bulgaria more specifically, cannot b…
The Politicisation Game
As the third-largest exporting country in the world, Germany is a clear beneficiary and proponent of free trade. Few, therefore, expected the magnitude of contention that emerged within Germany during the negotiations between the EU and the United States for a transatlantic trade deal (TTIP). This paper explores the politicisation process of TTIP within the context of the broader transformations of German politics including not only the entry of …
The shape of the cloud
The article analyses local contestation of data centres in the Dutch province of North Holland. I explore why and how local councillors and citizen groups mobilized against data centres and demanded democratization of decision-making processes about digital infrastructure. This analysis is used as a vantage point to problematize existing policy and academic narratives on digital sovereignty in Europe. I show, first, that most debates on digital s…
The Politics of Emigration in Europe
While the politics of immigration in destination countries has been a prominent topic of research in comparative political science in Europe, the same does not apply to emigration and to the perspective of peripherical EU countries. This is true even though the flows of people moving from east to west and from south to north pose potentially significant challenges to ‘sending countries’ in Europe. This article sets up a research agenda aimed at c…
Voice after Exit? Bulgarian Civic Activists between Protest and Emigration
This article belongs to a forthcoming special cluster, “Contention Politics and International Statebuilding in Southeast Europe” guest-edited by Nemanja Džuverovic, Julia Rone and Tom Junes. Historically, civic activists who left their home countries in the wake of protests would either risk disappearing in anonymity or become engaged in political “exile networks.” However, since the outbreak of the “global wave” of protest, the ability of activi…
Conflicts of sovereignty over EU trade policy
Instrumentalising sovereignty claims in British pro- and anti-Brexit mobilisations
Despite the growing literature on Brexit, specifically, and conflicts of sovereignty, more generally, there has been insufficient research on how the concept of sovereignty has been used in citizen campaigns and street protests across the United Kingdom – a form of ‘counter-democracy’ through which people attempted to oversee the post-referendum political process. Combining qualitative content analysis of campaign websites with a discourse-networ…
Enemies of the people”? Diverging discourses on sovereignty in media coverage of Brexit
Fake profiles, trolls, and digital paranoia
While social movement studies have long focused on the formation and dynamics of social movement coalitions and “boundary spanning’, much less attention has been paid to why and how social movement alliances break down and dissolve. Expanding theoretical reflections on the ‘dark side of digital politics’, the current paper bridges critical Internet research and research on movement coalitions and explores how subversive digital media practices de…
Bulgarian pirates
The present article compares the strategies of the legitimation of piracy developed by Western authors such as Richard Stallman and Larry Lessig with those developed by everyday Bulgarian pirates. It attempts to escape from the usual debate between the entertainment industries and the supporters of free culture, and to open the field for new perspectives. In Bulgaria it is precisely “free” as in “free beer” that matters, since the prices of cultu…
Bulgarian pirates
The present article compares the strategies of the legitimation of piracy developed by Western authors such as Richard Stallman and Larry Lessig with those developed by everyday Bulgarian pirates. It attempts to escape from the usual debate between the entertainment industries and the supporters of free culture, and to open the field for new perspectives. In Bulgaria it is precisely “free” as in “free beer” that matters, since the prices of cultu…
Introduction
This article belongs to a forthcoming special cluster, “Contention Politics and International Statebuilding in Southeast Europe” guest-edited by Nemanja Džuverovic, Julia Rone and Tom Junes
Voice after Exit? Bulgarian Civic Activists between Protest and Emigration
This article belongs to a forthcoming special cluster, “Contention Politics and International Statebuilding in Southeast Europe” guest-edited by Nemanja Džuverovic, Julia Rone and Tom Junes. Historically, civic activists who left their home countries in the wake of protests would either risk disappearing in anonymity or become engaged in political “exile networks.” However, since the outbreak of the “global wave” of protest, the ability of activi…
Contesting Austerity and Free Trade in the Eu
Enemies of the people”? Diverging discourses on sovereignty in media coverage of Brexit
Backsliding of the left
The paper explores how the leaders of parliamentary represented parties in Bulgaria discussed Fidesz's policies in the period 2010-2019. Furthermore, it attempts to explain why Orbán's brand of conservative illiberalism has emerged as a normative ideal for a number of Bulgarian political parties, including the Bulgarian socialists after 2016. The paper argues that so-called ‘democratic backsliding' in CEE, and Bulgaria more specifically, cannot b…
The politics of data infrastructures contestation
In our times of increasing screen dependency, the data infrastructures making possible ‘online’ or ‘virtual’ modalities of work and leisure have been increasingly contested. From the Netherlands to Ireland and Chile, activists have challenged the environmental consequences of energy- and water-intensive data centres, as well as the often undemocratic ways of deciding on their construction. In this piece, I draw on insights from the field of socia…
Far right alternative news media as ‘indignation mobilization mechanisms’
The paper analyses the role of alternative far-right media in promoting and organizing mobilization against the Global Compact for Migration – the first intergovernmentally negotiated agreement, prepared under the auspices of the United Nations, covering all dimensions of international migration in a holistic and comprehensive manner. Exploring four European alternative far-right media: PI-News in Germany, Il Primato Nazionale in Italy, the UK lo…
Conflicts of sovereignty over EU trade policy
Instrumentalising sovereignty claims in British pro- and anti-Brexit mobilisations
Despite the growing literature on Brexit, specifically, and conflicts of sovereignty, more generally, there has been insufficient research on how the concept of sovereignty has been used in citizen campaigns and street protests across the United Kingdom – a form of ‘counter-democracy’ through which people attempted to oversee the post-referendum political process. Combining qualitative content analysis of campaign websites with a discourse-networ…
Fake profiles, trolls, and digital paranoia
While social movement studies have long focused on the formation and dynamics of social movement coalitions and “boundary spanning’, much less attention has been paid to why and how social movement alliances break down and dissolve. Expanding theoretical reflections on the ‘dark side of digital politics’, the current paper bridges critical Internet research and research on movement coalitions and explores how subversive digital media practices de…
Sovereignty in Conflict
Beyond Brexit? Public Participation in Decision-Making on Campaign Data During and After Referendum Campaigns
While the Brexit referendum campaign has been extensively researched, media, regulatory bodies, and academics have often talked at cross-purposes. A strong focus on Cambridge Analytica’s role in the 2016 referendum, despite official investigations concluding the company had only limited involvement in the campaign, has distracted attention from more mundane but highly controversial data practices, including selling voters’ data to third parties o…
The shape of the cloud
The article analyses local contestation of data centres in the Dutch province of North Holland. I explore why and how local councillors and citizen groups mobilized against data centres and demanded democratization of decision-making processes about digital infrastructure. This analysis is used as a vantage point to problematize existing policy and academic narratives on digital sovereignty in Europe. I show, first, that most debates on digital s…
The Politics of Emigration in Europe
While the politics of immigration in destination countries has been a prominent topic of research in comparative political science in Europe, the same does not apply to emigration and to the perspective of peripherical EU countries. This is true even though the flows of people moving from east to west and from south to north pose potentially significant challenges to ‘sending countries’ in Europe. This article sets up a research agenda aimed at c…
Sovereignty in Conflict
The Politicisation Game
As the third-largest exporting country in the world, Germany is a clear beneficiary and proponent of free trade. Few, therefore, expected the magnitude of contention that emerged within Germany during the negotiations between the EU and the United States for a transatlantic trade deal (TTIP). This paper explores the politicisation process of TTIP within the context of the broader transformations of German politics including not only the entry of …
The sovereign cloud’ in Europe
In the wake of the pervasive digitalisation of industry, the disruption of global supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a geopolitical race for the development of artificial intelligence models, the European Union has pivoted towards promoting ‘digital sovereignty’ across the technological stack. The paper looks more specifically at the cloud layer and analyses the draft European Union Cloud Services Scheme (EUCS) launched by the Europe…
Beyond 'Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
What are the impacts of migration on those directly involved in it: those who stay and those who leave? The deceptive simplicity of this question becomes obvious once we look at the diverse and mutually contradictory empirical answers it has received. On the basis of Web of Science data, we provide a mapping of existing studies on migration’s impacts, which reveals a clearly pronounced modularity between different disciplines and theoretical appr…
Reversing the Privatisation of the Public Sphere
The emergence of social media companies, and the spread of disinformation as a result of their “surveillance capitalist” business model, has opened wide political and regulatory debates across the globe. The EU has often positioned itself as a normative leader and standard-setter, and has increasingly attempted to assert its sovereignty in relation to social media platforms. In the first part of this article, we argue that the EU has achieved nei…
The 2024 European Parliament Elections in Bulgaria
Les élections du Parlement européen de 2024 en Bulgarie
Stop the Pact'! The Foreign Policy Impact of the Far-Right Campaigning Against the Global Compact for Migration
In 2018, the UN Global Compact for Migration (GCM) was signed by a majority of countries. The GCM was the first intergovernmentally negotiated agreement, prepared under the auspices of the United Nations, to cover all dimensions of international migration in a holistic and comprehensive manner. Seventeen countries, among them Italy, Austria, Hungary and Poland, abstained or voted against this non-binding agreement as they feared interference in t…
Laggards or Mavericks? Czechia and Hungary’s Divergent Responses to the EU's Changing Industrial Policy Regime
There is widespread agreement among scholars that the “geo-dirigiste turn” in the EU and the resurgent spirit of industrial policymaking have thus far only served the interests of core countries, thereby reinforcing core–periphery dynamics on the continent. However, despite their shared semi-peripheral status in the transnational division of labour, Central and Eastern European states such as Czechia and Hungary have navigated the changing indust…
From tech wars to tech culture wars? ‘Values shaping’ and ‘values signaling’ in AI system design and governance
As Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are becoming increasingly sophisticated in emulating human communication and expressing social values, they also gain greater relevance for questions of culture and identity. This article conceptualizes and illustrates major ways in which this value dimension becomes salient by providing an overview of conflicts over embedding social values into generative AI systems. While values are often unintentionally …
Politics (22 works) · Political science (21 works) · Law (19 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Political economy (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Economics (9 works) · European union (7 works) · Sovereignty (7 works) · Social Media and Politics (6 works)