Abstract
There has been a firestorm of moral outrage regarding the collection and misuse of personal information by data-informed digital companies. In framing their actions we often make a distinction between “good” and “bad” actors. I investigate the hidden presupposition that informs this dichotomy, by using the figure of the citizen to reveal an underlying structural transformation in the fog of our times. I ask, what can we reverse engineer from this historical phenomenon to derive a meaning of the political project defining the making of “digital space,” which shares meaning with the supposed inherent characteristics of the age, and its relationship to the production, validation, and dissemination of information? I’ll present a case for how an atomization of affinity and failure maps and draws energy from a broader historical agenda of social, political, and economic deregulation. On this basis I ask, what are the implications for understanding the figure of the digital citizen?
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- “Good” and “Bad” Actors in Digital Space: The Un/Making of a Digital Citizen
- The Jade Straitjacket: Measuring Reactions to China’s Rise
- Globalizing Education in Times of Hyper-Nationalism, Rising Authoritarianism, and Shrinking Worldviews
- Commentary
- The Fall of the Post-Industrial, Post-Global, Post-Colonial World
- Africa, Go Green! A New Initiative for the Continent’s Youth to Become Leaders in the Global Environment Needs to Combine Activism with Knowledge, Research and Policy
- Review Essay
- Gordon Mathews, Linessa Dan Lin and Yang Yang. The World in Guangzhou. African and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace; Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke and Jeffrey Gale Williamson, Eds. The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery since 1871
- Book Reviews
- Edward Ross Dickinson. The World in the Long Twentieth Century: An Interpretive History
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos. The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- “Good” and “Bad” Actors in Digital Space: The Un/Making of a Digital Citizen
- The Jade Straitjacket: Measuring Reactions to China’s Rise
- Globalizing Education in Times of Hyper-Nationalism, Rising Authoritarianism, and Shrinking Worldviews
- Commentary
- The Fall of the Post-Industrial, Post-Global, Post-Colonial World
- Africa, Go Green! A New Initiative for the Continent’s Youth to Become Leaders in the Global Environment Needs to Combine Activism with Knowledge, Research and Policy
- Review Essay
- Gordon Mathews, Linessa Dan Lin and Yang Yang. The World in Guangzhou. African and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace; Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke and Jeffrey Gale Williamson, Eds. The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery since 1871
- Book Reviews
- Edward Ross Dickinson. The World in the Long Twentieth Century: An Interpretive History
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos. The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South