Fostering the data welfare state: A Nordic perspective on datafication

IF 2 Q2 COMMUNICATION Nordicom Review Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI:10.2478/nor-2021-0051
R. Andreassen, Anne Kaun, Kaarina Nikunen
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Abstract 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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培育数据福利国家:北欧人对数据化的看法
随着2019冠状病毒病(Covid-19)大流行加速了大规模数字化的进程,从健康到教育等方方面面的数字工具被迅速引入,以取代实体会议,并允许采取社交距离措施。这种快速的数字化增强了已经在进行的数据化进程,即将我们的身份、实践和社会结构的不断增加的方面转化为数据。通过对福利国家的三个重要领域——就业服务、公共服务媒体和矫正部门——数据化的实证例子的分析,我们提请注意北欧福利国家数据化的一些固有问题。该分析对自动化决策过程提出了批判性的看法,并说明了数据主义的意识形态如何越来越多地与福利提供纠缠在一起。在文章的最后,我们呼吁制定具体的措施和政策来促进数据福利国家的发展,媒体和传播学者发挥着至关重要的作用。
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