Redistributive imaginaries: Digitization, culture, and prosocial contribution

这个项目的目的是调查数字在欧洲新兴的再分配想象中的作用。税收、慈善、慈善和互助是再分配的形式，使个人能够向他们的社会“付出”。在当今时代，数字化进程正在迅速重新配置对这些再分配机制的获取和参与，启动更多的社会支付和捐款形式。数字平台催生的新贡献模式的出现，表明了参与、团结和关心他人的新形式，但它们也颠覆了国家规定的现有社会提供形式。“魔法”是一种符号系统，它赋予生活经验以意义和形态。再分配想象为理解经济贡献和社会团结之间的关系提供了集体的常识性方法：它们赋予了使公民能够做出有利于社会贡献的结构的意义。这个项目将询问数字在新出现的再分配形式和想象中的作用。通过分析代表不同福利国家模式和慈善传统的五个国家背景(英国、瑞士、芬兰、西班牙和黑山)，它将考虑这项调查对欧洲亲社会捐助未来的影响。作为一个联合体，我们在提供定性研究方面处于独特的地位，这些研究突出了文化和象征实践在经济过程和实践中的作用，并建立在我们现有的经验和概念专业知识的基础上。我们的混合方法结合了话语分析、数字平台的支付能力分析和日常亲社会实践的民族志。这项调查将大大推进对经济想象的研究，并将向民间社会、政府和企业的一系列利益攸关方受众提供以证据为基础的案例研究和有价值的情景。

The aim of this project is to investigate the role of the digital in emergent redistributive imaginaries in Europe. Taxation, philanthropy, charity and mutual aid are redistributive forms which enable individuals to 'pay in' to their societies. In the contemporary conjuncture, digitization processes are rapidly reconfiguring access to and engagement with these redistributive mechanisms, initiating more social forms of payment and contribution. The emergence of new modes of contribution fostered by digital platforms point to novel forms of participation, solidarity and care for others, but they are also disruptive of established state-mandated forms of social provisioning. 'Imaginaries' are semiotic systems that give meaning and shape to lived experience. Redistributive imaginaries provide collective, common-sense ways of understanding the relationship between economic contribution and social solidarity: they give meaning to the structures which enable citizens to make prosocial contributions. This project will interrogate the role of the digital in emergent redistributive forms and imaginaries. By analysing five national contexts representing different welfare state models and philanthropic traditions (UK, Switzerland, Finland, Spain and Montenegro), it will consider the implications of this investigation for the future of prosocial contribution in Europe. As a consortium we are uniquely placed to deliver qualitative research that foregrounds the role of cultural, signifying practices in economic processes and practices and builds on our existing empirical and conceptual expertise. Our mixed-methods approach incorporates discourse analysis, affordance analysis of digital platforms, and ethnography of everyday prosocial practices. The investigation will significantly advance the study of economic imaginaries, and it will deliver evidence-based case studies and scenarios of value to a range of stakeholder audiences in civil society, government and business.