Technology and algorithmic governance: social and political transformations in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Editorial

Technology and algorithmic governance: social and political transformations in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Editorial

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https://doi.org/10.5027/psicoperspectivas-Vol24-Issue2-fulltext-3547

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence, algorithmic governmentality, political transformations, social transformations, technology

Abstract

What do such diverse phenomena as new international education policies, the creation of health protocols, the rise of digitalized work platforms in the context of 21st-century labor transformations, and the implementation of epidemiological surveillance systems during the COVID-19 pandemic in countries such as Spain and Chile share in their underlying logic? This is not simply a matter of the technification of life, but rather an epistemic and political mutation: the emergence, in Foucauldian terms, of a regime of truth where reality is filtered, produced, and governed by data. This is not just a technical issue, but a transformation in the ways of exercising power, governing populations, producing knowledge, and constituting subjectivities. This Thematic Section responds to the challenges of social transformations brought about by the algorithmic event. The articles we present offer a global vision that condenses current sensibilities around algorithms and artificial intelligence, their implications in terms of social management, and their effects on different areas of our daily reality, analyzing different aspects and characteristics of what a society constituted by the action of the aforementioned algorithms, artificial intelligence, and datafication would be like.

Author Biographies

Enrique Baleriola, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Psychologist, University of Almería, Spain; Master's Degree in Psychosocial Research and Intervention; Doctorate in People and Society in the Contemporary World, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. Associate Professor in the Department of Social Psychology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His research focuses on public policies in the fields of education and epidemiology, analyzing how these policies are implemented in society and their consequences for citizens who are not experts in policy design but who are affected by its implications on a daily basis. He also investigates the role and roles that society and the different groups that comprise it (institutions, government agencies, international associations, schools, laboratories, etc.) play in defining technology and its deployment in people's everyday practices. He has participated in parliamentary amendments to laws on the meaning of the public sphere in education and in Chilean government regulations on school violence.

Rodrigo Piñones Valenzuela, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Psicólogo, Magíster y Doctoor en Filosofía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. 

Guillermo Rivera-Aguilera, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Academic and researcher at the School of Psychology of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso (PUCV). He is a member of the Chilean Group for Organizational Studies (MINGA) and part of the Latin American Network for Organizational Studies (REOL). He has published several scientific articles on youth, work, and organizations in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Venezuela, and Chile. He has also been a visiting researcher at the Pontifical Xavierian University in Bogotá, Colombia, at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, and in the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) in Mexico. 

Pablo Cáceres Serrano, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Psychologist, Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso; Master's Degree in Behavioral and Health Sciences Methodology; Master's Degree in Big Data and Data Science; and Doctorate in Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.

Francisco Tirado-Serrano, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

He holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology, a Master's degree in Social Psychology, and a Doctorate in Psychology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). He is a tenured professor of Social Psychology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He directs the university's doctoral program entitled Person and Society in the Contemporary World and the Barcelona Science and Technology Studies Group (STS-b) research group. His teaching and research interests focus on the implementation of technologies such as algorithms and artificial intelligence in public institutions and organizations, and on the devices of control and power that arise as a result of such implementation.

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2025-07-15

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Baleriola, E., Piñones Valenzuela, R., Rivera-Aguilera, G., Cáceres Serrano, P., & Tirado-Serrano, F. (2025). Technology and algorithmic governance: social and political transformations in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Editorial. Psicoperspectivas, 24(2). https://doi.org/10.5027/psicoperspectivas-Vol24-Issue2-fulltext-3547

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