Citizen In The Digital State: Innovation VS Political Myth

10.54398/1818510Х_2023_3_138

Annotation

The transformations that are currently taking place in terms of citizens' understanding of the digital state, as well as the changes that digital reality brings to everyday practices, determine the relevance of this research. Topics of current interest become the study of possible threats and risks together with trust not only in the electronic state as a phenomenon, but also in political institutions. At the same time, there is a need to analyse how the idea of a digital state itself can be considered from the political mythology point of view. The goal of this article is to comprehend the phenomenon of the digital state from the perspective of its embodiment in a new emerging political myth. The article was written within the framework of the methodology of structuralism and the neo-institutional theory. The research is based on contemporary works in the field of the building of a digital state and Claude Levi-Strauss’s approach to mythology. The article uses analytical and descriptive methods. It is concluded that the development of Internet technologies is the answer, first of all, to everyday questions, which are seemingly unrelated to politics and power practices. The digital state simultaneously bears the features of a fairy-tale kingdom and a digital concentration camp, embodying two myths at once. In many ways, the policy of the real state determines how widely virtual reality will enter our everyday life.

Keywords

• digital state
• electronic state
• state
• citizen
• digital citizenship
• political myth
• mythology
• trust
• everyday life
• digital reality
• risks
• threats
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Acknowledgments

the research was carried out at the expense of a grant from the Russian Science Foundation (project № 22-78-10049 “The state and the citizen in the new digital reality”).

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