What theoretical tools are needed to think about the digitization of public action?

By Fabien Granjon
English

Our article outlines a model for analysing both the space of state production of digital governmentalities, and the plurality of sociotechnical logics of public action. The intersection of these two lines of inquiry enables us both to carry out a global analysis of the regimes of rationalizing public action through digital technology, and to grasp the concrete forms of digital instrumentation, as well as their different modes of appropriation. The aim of this theoretical outline is to construct a socio-technical understanding of the production of digital governmentalities and the shifts generated by these new institutional regimes, both for public agents and for their constituents.