Fostering the data welfare state: A Nordic perspective on datafication
Digital tools facilitating everything from health to education have been introduced at a rapid pace to replace physical meetings and allow for social distancing measures as the Covid-19 pandemic has sped up the drive to large-scale digitalisation. This rapid digitalisation enhances the already ongoi...
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| description | Digital tools facilitating everything from health to education have been introduced at a rapid pace to replace physical meetings and allow for social distancing measures as the Covid-19 pandemic has sped up the drive to large-scale digitalisation. This rapid digitalisation enhances the already ongoing process of datafication, namely turning ever-increasing aspects of our identities, practices, and societal structures into data. Through an analysis of empirical examples of datafication in three important areas of the welfare state – employment services, public service media, and the corrections sector – we draw attention to some of the inherent problems of datafication in the Nordic welfare states. The analysis throws critical light on automated decision-making processes and illustrates how the ideology of dataism has become increasingly entangled with welfare provision. We end the article with a call to develop specific measures and policies to enable the development of the data welfare state, with media and communication scholars playing a crucial role. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-50d438a570b643deb2cbc96d174d2e702023-09-02T14:53:02ZengSciendoNordicom Review2001-51192021-12-0142220722310.2478/nor-2021-0051Fostering the data welfare state: A Nordic perspective on dataficationAndreassen Rikke0Kaun Anne1Nikunen Kaarina2Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University, DenmarkSchool of Culture and Education, Södertörn University, SwedenFaculty of Information, Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University, FinlandDigital tools facilitating everything from health to education have been introduced at a rapid pace to replace physical meetings and allow for social distancing measures as the Covid-19 pandemic has sped up the drive to large-scale digitalisation. This rapid digitalisation enhances the already ongoing process of datafication, namely turning ever-increasing aspects of our identities, practices, and societal structures into data. Through an analysis of empirical examples of datafication in three important areas of the welfare state – employment services, public service media, and the corrections sector – we draw attention to some of the inherent problems of datafication in the Nordic welfare states. The analysis throws critical light on automated decision-making processes and illustrates how the ideology of dataism has become increasingly entangled with welfare provision. We end the article with a call to develop specific measures and policies to enable the development of the data welfare state, with media and communication scholars playing a crucial role.https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2021-0051welfare statedataismdataficationdata welfare stateautomated predictions |
| spellingShingle | Andreassen Rikke Kaun Anne Nikunen Kaarina Fostering the data welfare state: A Nordic perspective on datafication Nordicom Review welfare state dataism datafication data welfare state automated predictions |
| title | Fostering the data welfare state: A Nordic perspective on datafication |
| title_full | Fostering the data welfare state: A Nordic perspective on datafication |
| title_fullStr | Fostering the data welfare state: A Nordic perspective on datafication |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fostering the data welfare state: A Nordic perspective on datafication |
| title_short | Fostering the data welfare state: A Nordic perspective on datafication |
| title_sort | fostering the data welfare state a nordic perspective on datafication |
| topic | welfare state dataism datafication data welfare state automated predictions |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2021-0051 |
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