The present work aims to investigate the evolution of the value structures of the individual from the Christian age to today’s digital age, with particular regards to the category of digital citizenship as a new form of subjectivism of contemporary societies. The analysis concerns the history of the personalistic principle, the development of the concept of the person and the discovery of its new frontiers in the digital State. It must confront itself with the progressive crumbling of the personal identity that would seem to lead to a new metaphysics of the existing: the “network.” In this sense, digital becomes the projection of the human desire to transcend its essence through the construction of an electronic “body” in which it can recognize itself. The profiling of the individual through digital platforms transforms the existential structure of the individual, whose geometria corporis is punctuated by “data”, a bridge between real and virtual, between physical and metaphysical. It is a transformation that involves not only man and his characteristics but also his socio-political projection and, therefore, the form of state within which he is called out to operate as a citizen.

Received 24 April 2024. Revised 03 July 2024. Accepted 01 August 2024. Published online 15 August 2024

Person, Digital citizenship, Electronic democracy, Profiling, Posthuman,

http://dx.doi.org/10.26106/33r7-mf05