The dilemmas around digital citizenship in a post-Brexit and post-Pandemic Northern Ireland: Towards an algorithmic nation?

Calzada, Igor ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4269-830X and Bustard, John R. T. 2023. The dilemmas around digital citizenship in a post-Brexit and post-Pandemic Northern Ireland: Towards an algorithmic nation? Citizenship Studies 27 (2) , pp. 271-292. 10.1080/13621025.2022.2026565

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Abstract

Northern Ireland (NI) has pervasively been a fragile and often disputed city-regional nation. Despite NI’s slim majority in favour of remaining in the EU, de facto Brexit, post-pandemic challenges, and the Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP) have revealed a dilemma: people of all political hues have started to question aspects of their own citizenship. Consequently, this article suggests an innovative approach called ‘Algorithmic Nations’ to better articulate its emerging/complex citizenship regimes for this divided and post-conflict society in which identity borders and devolution may be facilitated through blockchain technology. This article assesses implications of this dilemma for a city-regionalised nation enmeshed within the UK, Ireland, and Europe. The article explores digital citizenship in NI by applying ‘Algorithmic Nations’ framework particularly relating to intertwined (i) cross-bordering, (ii) critical awareness, (iii) digital activism, and (iv) post-pandemic realities and concludes with three dilemmas and how ‘Algorithmic Nations’ framing could better integrate NI’s digital citizenship.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD)
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform J Political Science > J General legislative and executive papers J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JC Political theory J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN1187 Scotland J Political Science > JS Local government Municipal government J Political Science > JX International law J Political Science > JZ International relations K Law > KZ Law of Nations T Technology > T Technology (General)
Additional Information:	This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
Publisher:	Routledge
ISSN:	1362-1025
Funders:	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
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Date of First Compliant Deposit:	5 January 2022
Date of Acceptance:	3 December 2021
Last Modified:	17 May 2023 21:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/146363

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