Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: Research on the information society and the policies and strategies for its creation has tended to\ndiscuss them rationally as the national, and occasionally international or regional, responses to\nchanges in the competitive environment. The predominant notion of the information society in various\nlevels of governance has only rarely been critically examined. The paper provides a Foucauldian\nanalysis of the constitution of the information society as a political and policy imperative at the level\nof the European Union and the multiple effects it had for its member states. Drawing on ideas on\ngovernmentality and regimes of truth, I argue that the European Commission continually shaped the\nrationality and identity of the information society it heralded, by managing to set itself as the\nlegitimate locus of policy for the information society. In revealing the dominant discursive truths\nabout the European information society, the research discusses how the truth claims about the\nconstruction of a particular version of the information society and the legitimate loci of its government\nshaped the degrees of freedom of the Greek policy makers through a range of disciplining and selfdisciplining practices.
Author: Ioanna Chini
Language: English
Subfield: General Social Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1550341471