title: Digital governmentality: Participatory governance vs. biopolitics
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metadata.value: Ignatjeva, Olga A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-02-18T10:38:27Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-02-18T10:38:27Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Ignatjeva O. A. Digital governmentality: Participatory governance vs. biopolitics. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2020, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 462–473.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2020.403
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/24303
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The notion of governmentality was first used by the French postmodern philosopher Michel Foucault
  during his lectures at the College de France in 1978-1979. The term is one of the characteristics
  of political power, along with sovereignty and discipline, but it characterizes its later stages
  of evolution. Foucault and his commentators give multiple meanings to this term, but perhaps
  the most accurate ones are the definition of governmentality as a way of rational thinking about
  the realization of political power and governmentality as the art of government. The emergence
  of governmentality is associated with the emergence of political economy and implies the use of
  biopolitical techniques, a concept that Foucault introduces to emphasize the need for socio-humanitarian
  knowledge in disciplining the “political body”. Evolution and peculiarities of biopolitics
  are discussed in detail in this article in relation to each type of governmentality. This article
  examines three types of governmentality (liberalism, authoritarianism, neoliberalism) introduced
  by the French thinker and proposes considering a new type of governmentality that characterizes
  the modern stage of society’s development. Here we use a governmentality concept as a
  methodological instrument for analysis of a new type of governance. The author notes that digital
  governmentality is characterized by governance using digital platforms. The article provides a
  detailed description of the architecture of one such platforms, as well as a set of algorithms that
  will mediate the interaction between the population and government representatives. The purpose
  of this article is to identify the essence of digital governmentality and its nature. Is the emerging
  form of public governance through digital platforms, as a consequence of its digitalization, democratic
  and participatory, or is it still a more sophisticated way of governing the population using
  manipulative, biopolitical strategies? An attempt to answer this question is made in the article by
  considering both the evolution of the term governmentality itself and the technological features of
  digital platforms with their interpretation based on Michel Foucault’s concept.
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metadata.value: The work was supported financially by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and ANO
  EISI, grant no. 20-011-31361 “Outsourcing Political Judgments: Critical Analysis of the Information
  Paradigm of Public Network Communication”.
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Political Expertise: POLITEX;Volume 16; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Foucault
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: governmentality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: biopolitics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: rationality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: digital platform
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Digital governmentality: Participatory governance vs. biopolitics
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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