[Air-L] Datafication and the Welfare State - Special Issue in Global Perspectives

[Lina Dencik]

Members of this list might be interested in this new special issue on 'Datafication and the Welfare State' edited by Lina Dencik and Anne Kaun and published open access in Global Perspectives: https://online.ucpress.edu/gp/pages/dws

The collection of articles in the special issue illustrate the breadth and depth in which the process of datafication of the welfare state has taken shape. Although they congregate around case studies from Western societies, they situate these within a global context and engage with questions that are applicable to developments happening around the world. The articles unite around an understanding of datafication as a political development that has significant implications for how we think about the welfare state. These stretch across the shifting nature of public service media, the allocation of benefits, the assessment of the unemployed, the construction of population registers and the varying regulatory frameworks in different countries. Through these different case studies and analyses we are provided with a rich and in-depth exploration of the most recent expressions of how democratic values and state-citizen relations are changing with and through datafication.

Best,

Lina


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Dr Lina Dencik

Reader / Co-Director Data Justice Lab

PI Data Justice: Understanding datafication in relation to social justice (DATAJUSTICE) ERC Starting Grant 2018-2023

School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University

Two Central Square, Central Square, Cardiff CF10 1FS

Email: DencikL at cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:DencikL at cardiff.ac.uk>, Tel: +44 (0)29 208 75461

Twitter: @LinaDencik

Fellow, Center for Media, Data and Society, Central European University