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August 22, 2026Policy & InternetOpen Access

Whose Digital Future? Civil Society and Alternative Imaginaries in Transnational Digital Governance

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OPOuti Puukko

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Overview

Discourse analysis reveals three competing visions of technology within civil society submissions to the United Nations, highlighting the normative scope of transnational digital governance.

Key Points

  • Investigate how civil society actors discursively construct and mobilize alternative visions of digital futures within transnational digital governance frameworks.
  • Applied a discourse-theoretical framework to analyze civil society submission papers contributed to the United Nations' Global Digital Compact.
  • Identified three distinct discursive digital futures mobilized by civil society: technological progress, societal balance, and transformative change.
  • Showed that while the three visions construct objectives, obstacles, and enablers in diverse ways, digital technologies are uniformly positioned as necessary across all narratives.

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Outi Puukko (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a895effca7ade938187d3c7https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.70055
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