Citizenship and Politics
摘要
This chapter discusses the impact of emerging technologies on citizenship and politics. It starts from the idea that for long, technologies have been developed to govern people through data gathering and quantitative analysis. This development is then looked at through the lens of citizenship, one of the core concepts in political philosophy, paying specific attention to the way status, identity, and participation are affected by emerging technologies. Following this, the chapter introduces the concept of civic virtue as both an ethical and a political concept that helps us evaluate the normative impacts of technologies on citizenship. Through a discussion of different theories of civic virtue, the chapter shows how technologies may both support and undermine civic virtue.