This article aims at analyzing the meanings of the so-called open government (OG) from a communication approach articulated with social semiotics tools. Our hypothesis points out the impossibility to study these policies isolated from the urban social context where they are developed, making up a type of city and the citizens for such city. Our theoretical-methodological strategy is focused on approaching the OG as a sensitivity regulation device that establishes new ways of social control. The analysis will be conducted on the city of Córdoba, Argentina, whose urban population matrix and evaluating ideological environment legitimize these OG policies. Thus, from initially reconstructing the OG, we will try to understand its configuration and operation by setting up collective political and action scenes, creating a particular enunciation and visibility regime, establishing some possibl...

This article aims at analyzing the meanings of the so-called open government (OG) from a communication approach articulated with social semiotics tools. Our hypothesis points out the impossibility to study these policies isolated from the urban social context where they are developed, making up a type of city and the citizens for such city. Our theoretical-methodological strategy is focused on approaching the OG as a sensitivity regulation device that establishes new ways of social control. The analysis will be conducted on the city of Córdoba, Argentina, whose urban population matrix and evaluating ideological environment legitimize these OG policies. Thus, from initially reconstructing the OG, we will try to understand its configuration and operation by setting up collective political and action scenes, creating a particular enunciation and visibility regime, establishing some possibl...