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Author: Igor Kravets
DOI: 10.21128/1812-7126-2023-2-93-123
Keywords: algorithmic society; algorithmization; digital citizenship; IT-constitutionalism; digital constitutionalism; information literacy; constitutional communication; deliberative democracy; constitutional mobilization; engagement
The article discusses the algorithmic and inclusive paradigm of constitutionalism and constitutional law; the conceptual foundations of digital citizenship and the constitutional challenges of the information and algorithmic society in the context of international scholarly discussion in comparative constitutionalism and jurisprudence, information law, and information technology law; scholarly and interpretative approaches to understanding digital citizenship; and the vectors of development and transformation of the institution of citizenship in constitutional and legal communication and in the theory and practice of constitutional construction. The article analyzes advances in the work of constituent authorities in the first two decades of the 21st century in a comparative constitutional context through forms of imperative and deliberative democracy; reveals the role of citizenship and information technologies in the development of forms of legal and political participation in an algorithmic society; and the prospects for interaction of digital citizenship and digital, information constitutionalism, on the one hand, and of digital citizenship and the system of constitutional and information law, on the other hand. The study highlights the transformation of the institution of citizenship as a political and legal phenomenon under the influence of new technologies. The nature of digital citizenship in the study is discussed from the standpoint of improving the processes of involvement in constitutional mobilization and constitutional modernization. Constitutional scholarship is beginning to discuss the problems of development of an algorithmic society in the language of constitutional law and to offer some constitutional legal answers to solve these. The doctrine of constitutionalism, like the doctrine of citizenship, is under pressure from the IT revolution due to the use of technology in the public and private spheres generated by the information and algorithmic society. The article uses deliberative and epistemological approaches and methods of formal-legal, concrete-historical, and comparative constitutional-legal and complex analyses. The results of these show that the institution of digital citizenship is the result of convergence of information and digital technologies and of the forms of citizen participation in political and other spheres, constitutional development, and constitutional changes. In conclusion, measures are proposed for the institutionalization and state-legal formulation of digital citizenship and for improvement of legal regulation of the development of the information society in Russia.
About the author: Igor Kravets – Professor, Doctor of Science in Law, Head of the Chair of Theory and History of State and Law and Constitutional Law of the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia.
Citation: Kravets I. (2023) Tsifrovoe grazhdanstvo i konstitutsionnye vyzovy v informatsionnom i algoritmicheskom obshchestve [Digital citizenship and constitutional challenges in the information and algorithmic society]. Sravnitel’noe konstitutsionnoe obozrenie, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 93–123. (In Russian).
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