Digital Identities in Tension deals with the ambivalence of universal digitalization. While this transformation opens up new possibilities, it also redistributes the interplay of constraints and incentives, and tends insidiously to create a greater malleability of individuals.
Today, companies and states are increasingly engaged in the surveillance and management of our digital identities. In response, we must study the effects that the new industrial, economic and political logics have on ethical issues and our ability to act.

This book examines the effects of digitalization on new modes of existence and subjectivation in many spheres: digital identity management systems, Big Data and machine learning, the Internet of Things, smart cities, etc. The study of these transformations is one of the major conditions for more responsible modes of data governance to emerge.

Foreword ixChapter 1. Identity as an Issue of Constraint and Recognition: A Question of Fundamental Ethics 1Pierre-Antoine CHARDEL1.1. Introduction 11.2. Digital ethics in context 21.3. Identification, corporality and recognition issues 61.4. Digital metamorphosis, subjectivation and liquid societies 91.5. Narrative identities and self-expressions 111.6. Identity as an ethical issue 141.7. Traceability and fetishism of form 18Chapter 2. Digital Regimes of Identity Management: From the Exercise of Privacy to Modulation of the Self 23Armen KHATCHATOUROV2.1. Introduction 232.2. From identity to digital identity: Historical and conceptual elements 282.2.1. Historical premises 282.2.2. About identification 332.2.3. Contemporary liquidity 382.2.4. Implementation of the approach: From narrative to writing 412.3. The digital and the appropriation of meaning 452.3.1. Digital transformation of meaning 452.3.2. Digital technology and the construction of identity: First elements 482.4. Transformations of existential territories 502.4.1. The relationship with the state and institutions 502.4.2. The relationship with market services 542.4.3. Social relations and production of the self 602.4.4. Sketch of the articulation between existential territories 642.5. From autonomy to modulated identity 662.5.1. The inadequacy of the concept of autonomy 662.5.2. Historical perspective: Discipline and control 672.5.3. Sketch of a typology of data production and control 752.5.4. Big Data as a minimum of control and initiative (exemplary case 1) 772.5.5. Quantified Self as maximum of control and initiative (exemplary case 2) 962.5.6. The illusion of control: Cross-domain aspects 1042.5.7. The four trends at work in identities 1092.6. Conclusion: Privacy in question in the digital transformation 1132.6.1. The social value of privacy 1142.6.2. Modulated identity and its private life 120Chapter 3. Individuals, Normativity and Urban Spaces: Critical Perspectives on Digital Governance 127Gabriel PÉRIÈS3.1. Introduction 1273.2. Identity-identification as a social fact: the systemic construction of digital identity 1323.2.1. Identity and identification 1323.2.2. From algorithmic rationality to the human body 1333.2.3. The e-individual: Between systemic analysis and redefinition of the social field 1363.3. e-Identity under construction in the smart city space 1413.3.1. The smart city and the state 1413.3.2. The interactive city and its actors 1423.3.3. Some structuring elements of governance of the smart city 1483.4. Conclusion: Identified citizen participation 152Chapter 4. Wait a minute, dystopia has not arrived yet? - Digital Identities and the Ability to Act Collectively, an Interview with Andrew Feenberg 155Andrew FEENBERG, Armen KHATCHATOUROV and Pierre-Antoine CHARDELReferences 177List of Authors 195Index 197