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Practices of radical digital care: towards autonomous queer migration
No full textDigital connectivity of queer migrants on the move to Europe plays a crucial role in confronting border regimes, heteronormativity and racist oppression. ICTs at the disposal of queer migrants interrupt the material politics of silence and violence. However, digital technology also implies serious hazards. Queer migrants use digital space to empower themselves, to build networks, and to trace, reach and create safer spaces of care. This paper conceptualises how care is materialised in self-organised actions and horizontal relationships that question power regimes and commodification practices while introducing the notion of radical digital care. Digital spaces of (radical) care constitute safe spaces of compassion where people can be heard and believed. They act as points of reference for queer people seeking recognition and care. Moreover, queer migration constitutes constant shifting between subject and care positions that redefine the notion of home and safety and the material ordering of migration itself. Based on a qualitative study of ten semi-structured interviews with solidarians and migrants, this paper reveals how the appropriation of digital media by queer migrants re-arranges the material politics of the borderland by contesting border technologies, and through radical care, allows communities to live through hardship, fear, and abuse.<br/
Migration and counter-information practices: enhancing mobility while subverting the mainstream media
No full textThere is a growing critique within media studies regarding the democratic
deficits embedded in a corporate-dominated, highly commercialized media
system. Particularly, these deficits refer to inequalities of access, issues
of representation and political/ideological power, economic and structural
alignment with globalizing capitalism, and proliferation of consumer culture
(Carroll and Hackett 2006). Moreover, mainstream media has been accused
of reproducing migration critical and xenophobic discourses (d’Haenens et
al. 2019; Titley 2019). At the same time and to counter these deficits and
discourses, social movements, and people in solidarity with migrants, have
taken advantage of the spectacular technological changes since the popular-
ization of the internet and digital media. They are early adopters of digital
technology, and they use digital media in creative and alternative ways for
inclusive organizing and to encourage alternative forms of participation in
democratic politics (Uldam and Vestergaard 2015)
Critical Perspectives on Predictive Policing: Anticipating Proof?
No full textThis chapter interrogates the question of what defines predictive policing. Our point of departure is notions in Science and Technology Studies that attend to how boundary objects such as predictive policing are produced through the interrelation of politics, sociotechnical imaginaries, and contestations. Through ethnographic inquiry on the empirical case of the POL-INTEL platform of the Danish police, we follow the evolution and demarcations in the (re)-classifications of POL-INTEL from predictive to non-predictive. In so doing, we situate POL-INTEL in the wider international context regarding the development of predictive policing and investigate the boundary work between predictive policing and similar concepts such as Intelligence-Led Policing. Concisely, we argue that the development of the notion of predictive policing is fundamentally unstable and tied to political and economic interests
Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies
Get PDFThis Open Access book investigates the methodological and ethical dilemmas involved when working with digital technologies and large-scale datasets in relation to ethnographic studies of digital migration practices and trajectories. Digital technologies reshape not only every phase of the migration process itself (by providing new ways to access, to share and preserve relevant information) but also the activities of other actors, from solidarity networks to border control agencies. In doing so, digital technologies create a whole new set of ethical and methodological challenges for migration studies: from data access to data interpretation, privacy protection, and research ethics more generally. Of specific concern are the aspects of digital migration researchers accessing digital platforms used by migrants, who are subject to precarious and insecure life circumstances, lack recognised papers and are in danger of being rejected and deported. Thus, the authors call for new modes of caring for (big) data when researching migrants’ digital practices in the configuration of migration and borders. Besides taking proper care of research participants’ privacy, autonomy, and security, this also spans carefully establishing analytically sustainable environments for the respective data sets. In doing so, the book argues that it is essential to carefully reflect on researchers’ own positioning as being part of the challenge they seek to address
Introduction : the discreet charm of predictive policing
Get PDFFunding: ESRC project 'NordForsk Digitalisation of the Public Sector - Critical Understanding of Predictive Policing' (grant number ES/V009338/1).Over the past 20 years, police organisations and practices across the globe have adopted data-driven tools to predict and prevent crime. Advances in digitalisation combined with the increasing role of private security, tech, and consulting companies are reshaping contemporary policing. Techno-managerialism, underpinned by computational logic, has altered the way we think – from causality to correlations and probabilities. In this introduction, we present the historical origins of predictive policing, a genealogical analysis of the concept, and introduce external factors for understanding the rise of predictive policing. Next, the critical understanding of predictive policing will be presented. The background is that the discreet charm of prediction, in terms of increased efficiency, reduced fiscal burdens, improved accuracy of decision-making, streamlined data management, and lower crime rates, has in recent years been met with scepticism, considerable critique, and even warnings of dystopia. We conclude the introduction by presenting our interdisciplinary approach to predictive policing and the volume's analysis of digital police infrastructure in Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Norway, Sweden, and the UK.Peer reviewe
Flexible access? Digitalisation of Danish healthcare through video consultations
No full textThis chapter brings attention to the political ideal of ‘flexible access’ to healthcare services. We situate flexibility in the context of a welfare state seeking to achieve efficiency and self-service by means of digitalisation and aim to provide empirical answers to how flexible access unfolds and is experienced in practice. Through ethnographic studies of video consultations in hospital outpatient clinics, we show how the flexibility of location offered by the video consultation creates different freedoms and conveniences for patients. However, values other than flexible access figure in patients’ preferences for their interactions with clinicians. Furthermore, achieving flexible access requires specific equipment, skills, and adaptability, and sometimes a need for assistance to obtain access. With the current push for virtual consultations and treatment in the home, these empirical insights contribute important knowledge about potential benefits, as well as obstacles and tensions that arise in the move to digital healthcare services
Infrastructure after welfare:communal infrastructure and the problem of (digital) monopolisation
No full textAiming at a moving target: how to research the automation of welfare
No full textThis chapter presents the findings of an extensive mapping exercise to systematically identify systems for automated decision-making, including artificial intelligence for welfare provision in Swedish and Danish municipalities and regions. The starting point for the mapping exercise and the chapter is that knowing the extent and character of such systems is crucial for supporting and maintaining social justice. Theoretically, the contribution is framed through references to discussions of ADM and AI transparency and accountability. While considering the structural and practical limitations of transparency, we end the chapter with suggestions for future research to make welfare automation visible and hence open up for civic participation
The beginning of AI-driven welfare? An inquiry into how public sector AI experiments shape the Danish welfare state
No full textThis study investigates the nascent stages of an AI-driven welfare state by focusing on 40 signature projects initiated by the Danish Government between 2020 and 2022. These projects represent a paradigmatic case of AI experimentation within the welfare state. We adopt an empirical approach based on mixed methods to explore the objectives, organizational actors, goals, and outcomes of the projects, shedding light on the evolving landscape of AI-driven welfare from 2020 to 2023. The chapter highlights the variance between welfare domains in the objectives set for AI models and the differences between municipal and regional experimentation with welfare, focusing on how they differ with respect to implementation and research goals. While only some of the projects to date have been operationally implemented, several live on as prototypes or partial systems with the potential to transform the welfare state beyond their formal termination
Digitalization, Data and Welfare
No full textThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline. This insightful book investigates the growing use of digital technologies to support welfare provision and examines which digital tools can have the greatest impact. It explores how these technologies influence and are influenced by social and cultural relations, working life, education, healthcare, markets, and organizations.Publishe
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