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Government and self-government in the information society
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posted on 2023-06-08, 05:54 authored by Ioanna ChiniResearch on the information society and the policies and strategies for its creation has tended to discuss them rationally as the national, and occasionally international or regional, responses to changes in the competitive environment. The predominant notion of the information society in various levels of governance has only rarely been critically examined. The paper provides a Foucauldian analysis of the constitution of the information society as a political and policy imperative at the level of the European Union and the multiple effects it had for its member states. Drawing on ideas on governmentality and regimes of truth, I argue that the European Commission continually shaped the rationality and identity of the information society it heralded, by managing to set itself as the legitimate locus of policy for the information society. In revealing the dominant discursive truths about the European information society, the research discusses how the truth claims about the construction of a particular version of the information society and the legitimate loci of its government shaped the degrees of freedom of the Greek policy makers through a range of disciplining and selfdisciplining practices.
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Universitá di VeronaPublisher URL
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2615-2626Pages
12.0Event name
17th European Conference on Information Systems in a Globalizing World: Challenges, Ethics and PracticesEvent location
VeronaEvent type
conferenceEvent date
2009Book title
17th European Conference on Information Systems: ECIS2009ISBN
978-88-6129-391-5Department affiliated with
- Business and Management Publications
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