*Doctor in political studies and researcher at the EHESS Political Anthropology Laboratory, Asma Mhalla is a specialist in political and geopolitical digital issues. She publishes “Technopolitics: how technology makes us soldiers” (Seuil, 288 p., 19.90 euros).
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LE FIGARO. - Technology giants are redefining our conception of the State, democracy and sovereignty, you write. Are these categories really outdated
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Asma MHALLA. -
We are witnessing the end of mass democracy as we inherited it from the 20th century.
Hannah Arendt already wondered in her time if it was possible to create something common from the masses.
The task has become even more difficult now with mass hyper-personalization.
Through microtargeting and data capture, technologies accentuate the fragmentation of reality: we are no longer exposed to the same information, we risk no longer sharing the same reality.
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