Science as datafied Space

With the popularization of the World Wide Web, the digital transformation began to convert more and more physical and social spaces into a software-based construct. With the development of the mobile Internet and after geopolitical turning points such as 9/11, this transformation turned out to be a datafication that was taking place on an ever-increasing scale: all social phenomena were transformed into data in order to be able to assign them new purposes and to monetize them. Many aspects of this development have their origins in scientific infrastructures, which are increasingly transforming into a specialized platform economy, a GAFAM of curated information. As platform corporations, they are developing and exploiting a behavioral biometrics of academic life as a whole, which is only very slowly being countered by approaches to digital sovereignty in science.