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“Good” and “Bad” Actors in Digital Space: The Un/Making of a Digital Citizen

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  • Kalantzis-Cope Phillip

    (Chief Social Scientist, Common Ground Research Networks, Champaign, Illinios)

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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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  • Kalantzis-Cope Phillip, 2020. "“Good” and “Bad” Actors in Digital Space: The Un/Making of a Digital Citizen," New Global Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 14(1), pages 1-23, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:nglost:v:14:y:2020:i:1:p:1-23:n:1
    DOI: 10.1515/ngs-2019-0012
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