My latest paper, titled “The Shifting Sands of Digital Transformation: Toward an International Political Sociology of Tinkering and Contestation” and co-authored with Rocco Bellanova and Georgios Glouftsios, has now been published.
In the paper, we develop an approach to conceptualize and study digital transformation as a mutable and contested process. Through engagement with PNR data processing, we show how digital infrastructures are continually reshaped through situated adjustments to technical and organizational matters, as well as struggles over what can be made sayable and actionable. We thus suggest to understand digital transformation processes as an unstable terrain where infrastructures, legal interventions, and political struggles continuously reconfigure one another.
The article is part of the International Political Sociology 20th Anniversary Special Issue and is available as free Open Access download.
Matthias Leese 