There is a rich body of literature on numbers as tools of governance. But the attention of the corpus in question is almost entirely on the rational properties of quantification. This article shows that government by numbers is also, and inseparably, a government by feelings. The Covid-19 pandemic was also a datademic in the sense that numbers populated and spread through the public sphere. We focus on three cases. Death tolls were associated with fear, immunization rates were linked to hope, and the threshold of 100,000 deaths was credited with symbolic significance. This article, based on the French case, examines how data like these, frequently perceived as objective evidence, can at the same time be a source of emotional engagement and, as such, be used to inform modes of public governance in times of crises.

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Covid-19 数据流行病治理中的数字和情感


有大量关于数字作为治理工具的文献。但所讨论的语料库的注意力几乎完全集中在量化的理性属性上。本文表明，数字政府也是密不可分的情感政府。 Covid-19 大流行也是一种数据流行病，因为数字在公共领域中聚集和传播。我们重点关注三种情况。死亡人数与恐惧相关，免疫率与希望相关，10万人死亡的门槛被认为具有象征意义。本文以法国案例为基础，探讨了这些经常被视为客观证据的数据如何同时成为情感参与的来源，并因此被用来为危机时期的公共治理模式提供信息。