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Collaborative Digital Governance: Pseudo-Educational Identities on the International Political Agenda?

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In this paper we analyse the alignment of pseudo-educational identities being generated by digital governance in collaborative culture frameworks. Our starting point is the premise that the digital identity of young people responds to a large extent to the projection of the digitalisation narratives contained in the international political agenda (European strategic frameworks and global power bodies) but most importantly to the reconversion of mechanisms carried out by governance. Under the argument of community capital, collaborative representation processes are introduced in an industrial terrain where pseudo-educational identities are gaining ground. Giroux (Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education. Chicago: Haymarket Books 2014) refers to a fictitious social aspect of digital governance that is revealed from coordinates of personal proximity and entertainment with a public register. In this chapter, we try to reflect on collaborative platforms as new forms of expression of institutional tools.

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    Such as the European Institute of Innovation and Technology in Regulation (EU) 2021/819 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Institute of Innovation and Technology

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    Along with reports by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, some works of fiction, such as Machines Like Me (McEwan, 2019), explore and openly reflect on the scope of technology in the most intimate and private spheres.

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    Vid. Human Rights Council Advisory Committee Report ‘New and emerging digital technologies and human rights’ (A(HRC/AC/25/CRP.2, 5 February 2021)

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    In this area, we must also consider the UNICEF project on Recommendations for AI policies and the rights of children (UNICEF 2020).

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    L. Belén Espejo Villar, Luján Lázaro Herrero & Gabriel Álvarez López

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    Juan García Gutiérrez

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Espejo Villar, L.B., Lázaro Herrero, L., Álvarez López, G., García Gutiérrez, J. (2021). Collaborative Digital Governance: Pseudo-Educational Identities on the International Political Agenda?. In: Muñoz-Rodríguez, J.M. (eds) Identity in a Hyperconnected Society. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85788-2_8

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