The Mutual Construction of Technology and Constitution:The Generative Logic of Digital Formalism in Grassroots Burden Reduction
Since the 19 th National Congress of the Party,the CPC Central Committee has closely integrated the Party's self-revo-lution with grassroots governance,cracked the problems,and deepening and expanding grassroots burden reduction.Digital governance is an important means,carrier and way to reduce the burden at the grassroots level.However,while digital technology is widely empow-ering the grassroots to reduce their burdens,"digital formalism"has gradually emerged,becoming a new variant of formalism under the auspices of digital technology,which is a deep-rooted problem of grassroots social governance at present.Based on the governance sce-nario of digital formalism embedded in grassroots burden reduction,this paper explores the types and characterization of"digital formal-ism"in grassroots burden reduction,the logic of its generation and the path of its governance.The study finds that there are two types of digital formalism in the current grassroots burden reduction practice:technological alienation under deviation of value goals and strate-gic implementation under the pressure system.The study further analyzes the process of coupling and shaping digital technologies and organizational systems,and comes up with the analytical framework of"Digital Technology-Organizational Constitution Mutual Con-struction".Finally,this paper focuses on the practice of technology embedded in grassroots governance,and explores the path of dissol-ving digital formalism at the grassroots level under the ecological environment of Cyber-Physical-Social System,in order to provide i-deas for the promotion of grassroots burden reduction.