Governance Viscosity,Embedded Path and Digital Transformation of Community Governance
The digital transformation of community governance is an important issue to promote the modernization of grass-roots governance in the digital era.How digital technology is embedded in different types of communities has become a key variable to in-vestigate the digital transformation of community governance.The type matrix of digital transformation of community governance is established based on community governance viscosity and technology embedding path.Based on the comparative case analysis,it is found that no matter what path digital technology is embedded in the community,communities with high governance viscosity rely on relationship networks and social capital,follow the internalization strategy to promote the smooth landing of digital transforma-tion.Comparatively,the communities with low governance viscosity have to seek resources from the bureaucratic pressure,deal with the digital transformation with movement governance,or follow the individual rational logic and return to the logic of"Maximizing Minor Troubles"for appealing to the bureaucracy to respond to the demands of the public,which limits the possibility of collabora-tive governance by digital empowered communities.Taking the viscosity difference of community governance as the starting point,adopting differential embedding strategy will help to promote the innovation of localized,substantive and sustainable digital gover-nance.
Community governanceDigital transformationGovernance viscosity