Data Welfare State

An exploration of both the context and practice of increasingly automated welfare states. From the complex technological systems behind implementation, to the lived experiences of citizens and workers in these new systems, to the possibilities for resisting and re-directing this datafication.

List of contents

Chapter 1: The Data Welfare State
Chapter 2: The Mundanization of Algorithmic Public Services
Chapter 3: Experiences of Data Welfare
Chapter 4: (Re-)Configuring Data Welfare
Conclusion: Crisis in the Welfare Question: Rethinking the Welfare State in the Age of Automation

About the author

Anne Kaun is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University, Stockholm Sweden and a Wallenberg Academy Fellow. The past years she has been studying the democratic implications of automated decision-making, artificial intelligence, and digitalization in the welfare sector. Previously she has engaged with projects concerning prisons and media infrastructures,  media trust during the pandemic as well as digital activism and memory culture. 

Product details

• Authors: Anne Kaun, Anne Masso Kaun, Kaun Anne, Anu Masso
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.2025
• EAN: 9781529667806
• ISBN: 978-1-5296-6780-6
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Data Justice
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, Public Administration, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Population & demography, Welfare and benefit systems, Social discrimination and social justice, For graduate / post-graduate and equivalents