Who are Digital Citizens? Identity, Responsibility and Citizenship in Datafied Society.

Identity, responsibility and citizenship are seriously challenged by datafication, that is, the process by which subjects, objects, and practices are transformed into digital data. This leads to a progressive de-humanization of these dimensions, as their meaning is made in reference to an abstract and disembodied data subject. Connecting their meaning instead to an embodied subject of experience in a digital world makes it possible to reconstruct them so they can provide meaningful references that drive the development of the digital world. Identity, responsibility and digital citizenship will be discussed and connected within the context of the performative theory of digital citizenship proposed by Isin Engin and Evelyn Ruppert. This will then be put in dialogue with the reflections on identity and responsibility proposed by Paul Ricoeur and Herbert Hart.