In conversation with digitalization: Myths, fiction or professional imagining?

In conversation with digitalization : Myths, fiction or professional imagining?

Nyhlén, Sara, 1980- (author): Mittuniversitetet,Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

Gidlund, Katarina L, 1967- (author): Mittuniversitetet,Institutionen för informationssystem och –teknologi

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Abstract Subject headings

We are surrounded by narratives about digitalization - in media, in white papers, in policies and in academic discourse. This article aims to dissect policy narratives to unveil the dominant stories associated with digitalization and open a dialogue on their consequences. The empirical material includes policy documents on digitalization at the European Union, national and sub-national levels focusing on the Swedish context. The article argues that these documents not only produce narratives of digitalization that reveal a certain orientation towards reality but also become tangible constructs. Further, despite their neutral language, they should be considered part of the problem formulation. The analysis is carried out by identifying the dominant and taken-for-granted stories, and the results show that digitalization, often portrayed as a modern and innovative concept, is frequently narrated in line with rather traditional perceptions of industrialized modernity. The results indicate that digitalization is trapped in an unambiguous and cramped dramaturgy, and if policies are enacted in the same way in practice, we will face a rather un-resilient digital modernity.

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SOCIAL SCIENCES: SOCIAL SCIENCES; and Media and Commun ...; and Information Syst ...

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