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- Moberg, Christina, et al.
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De unga gör helt rätt när de stämmer staten : 1 620 forskare och lärare i forskarvärlden: Vi ställer oss bakom Auroras klimatkrav
- 2022
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Ingår i: Aftonbladet. - : Aftonbladet. ; :2022-12-07
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Vi, 1 620 forskare samt lärare vid universitet och högskolor, är eniga med de unga bakom Auroramålet: De drabbas och riskerar att drabbas allvarligt av klimatkrisen under sin livstid. De klimatåtgärder vi vidtar i närtid avgör deras framtid. Sverige måste ta ansvar och göra sin rättvisa andel av det globala klimatarbetet. I strid med Parisavtalet ökar utsläppen av växthusgaser i en takt som gör att 1,5-gradersmålet kan överskridas om några år. De globala effekterna blir allt mer synliga med ständiga temperaturrekord, smältande isar, havshöjning och extremväder som torka, förödande bränder och skyfall med enorma översvämningar, som i Pakistan nyligen. Försörjningen av befolkningen utsätts för allvarliga hot i många länder.Minskningen av den biologiska mångfalden är extrem. Klimatkrisen är enligt WHO det största hotet mot människors hälsa i hela världen och barn utgör en särskilt sårbar grupp. Med Sveriges nordliga läge sker uppvärmningen här dubbelt så fort som det globala genomsnittet. Det förskjuter utbredningsområden för växtlighet och sjukdomsbärande insekter och ökar förekomsten av extremväder såsom värmeböljor, skogsbränder och översvämningar samt av många olika sorters infektioner och allergier. När extremväder ökar, ökar även stressen och risken för mental ohälsa. Värmeböljor ökar risken för sjukdom och död hos sårbara grupper som äldre, små barn och personer med kroniska sjukdomar. De negativa effekterna på hälsan kommer att öka i takt med klimatkrisen och barn riskerar att drabbas av ackumulerade negativa hälsoeffekter under hela sina liv. Redan i dag är mer än hälften av unga mellan 12 och 18 år i Sverige ganska eller mycket oroliga för klimat och miljö. Detta är förståeligt när våra beslutsfattare inte gör vad som krävs.Den juridiska och moraliska grunden för arbetet mot klimatförändringarna är att varje land måste göra sin rättvisa andel av det globala klimatarbetet. Centralt i det internationella klimatramverket är att rika länder med höga historiska utsläpp, däribland Sverige, måste gå före resten av världen. Dessa länder måste också bidra till att finansiera klimatomställningen i länderna i det Globala Syd, som är minst ansvariga för klimatkrisen men drabbas hårdast. Denna rättviseprincip är tydlig i Parisavtalet och var en het diskussionsfråga under COP27 i Sharm el-Sheikh, men lyser med sin frånvaro i det svenska klimatarbetet. Sverige har satt mål för att minska sina utsläpp. Men de är helt otillräckliga: minskningstakten är för låg och målen tillåter samtidigt att åtgärder skjuts på framtiden. Dessutom exkluderas merparten av Sveriges utsläpp från de svenska nationella utsläppsmålen; bland annat utelämnas utsläpp som svensk konsumtion orsakar utanför Sveriges gränser, utsläpp från utrikes transporter och utsläpp från markanvändning och skogsbruk, exempelvis utsläpp från förbränning av biobränslen eller utsläpp från dikade våtmarker (Prop. 2016/17:146 s.25-28).Sverige saknar dessutom ett eget mål för att öka upptaget av växthusgaser genom utökat skydd och restaurering av ekosystem, något som krävs för att begränsa de värsta konsekvenserna av klimatkrisen (IPCC s.32). Trots dessa låga ambitioner misslyckas Sverige med att nå sina utsläppsmål, konstaterar både Klimatpolitiska rådet och Naturvårdsverket. En klimatpolitik i linje med Parisavtalet kräver både att alla typer av växthusgasutsläpp minskar samtidigt som – inte i stället för – upptaget av växthusgaser maximeras: i dag misslyckas Sverige på bägge fronter.Slutsatsen är tydlig. Sverige vidtar inte de åtgärder som krävs för att skydda barns och ungdomars rättigheter enligt Europakonventionen till skydd för de mänskliga rättigheterna. Detta medför allvarliga risker för liv och hälsa för unga generationer, människor i andra länder och särskilt utsatta grupper. Detta kan inte fortsätta. Därför ställer vi oss bakom Auroras krav att Sverige börjar göra sin rättvisa andel och omedelbart sätter igång ett omfattande och långtgående klimatarbete som vilar på vetenskaplig grund och sätter rättvisa i centrum.
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- Sõmersalu, Liisa, 1983-
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Civic Cultures in Eastern Europe : Communication spaces and media practices of Estonian civil society organizations
- 2022
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- What kind of routine media and communication practices do Estonian civil society organizations enact in their everyday work? What sort of symbolic and physical spaces are used, created, and accessed by Estonian civil society organizations and informal citizen groups when engaging internally and with their target groups? How do these spaces and practices evolve over time? These are the questions this dissertation addresses, with the aim of understanding the ways in which already-established and evolving civil society organizations navigate the highly-mediated everyday through their routine media practices and the spaces in which these practices are situated.Theoretically, this study takes a cultural approach to political participation with the concept of ‘civic cultures’ (Dahlgren 2009, p. 103) in the centrum. In this dissertation, the civic cultures framework is concentrated into a focus on the everyday, on media practices, and on communicative spaces. The concepts of ‘everyday’ and ‘spaces’ are empirically accessed through a practice approach. To distill and explore the role of media in the everyday work of civil society organizations, this thesis borrows from “activist media practices” (Mattoni 2012, p. 159) framework.The empirical study is grounded in the wider geopolitical context of Eastern Europe and in the historical context of post-Soviet Europe, and more specifically in Estonian civil society. Using a multi-methods approach based on media ethnography, this study includes a nationally-representative survey, in-depth interviews with civil society organizations, and a longitudinal study of the Estonian Forest Aid movement.This study found that parallel to striving towards episodic visibility in physical spaces, in mainstream media, and in decision making, civil society organizations worked on constant visibility in the social media space. The most used social media platform, Facebook, proved to be an important space for developing civic cultures on an everyday level: it was used for campaigns, opinion shaping, for disseminating news, and for civic talk. Everyday communication within the organizations was done using a mix of different media technologies and face-to-face meetings. Each media technology and communicative space had their own role and function in the everyday work of Estonian civil society organizations.
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- Andreassen, Rikke, et al.
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Fostering the data welfare state : A Nordic perspective on datafication
- 2021
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Ingår i: Nordicom Review. - : Nordicom. - 1403-1108 .- 2001-5119. ; 42:2, s. 207-223
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)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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- Blom Lussi, Ellinor, et al.
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Governing the automated welfare state: Translations between AI ethics and anti-discrimination regulation
- 2024
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning / Nordic Welfare Research. - 2464-4161 .- 1799-4691. ; , s. 180-192
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is an increased demand for utilizing technological possibilities in the Nordic public sector. Automated decision-making (ADM) has been deployed in some areas towards that end. While it is linked to several benefits, research shows that the use of ADM, with elements of AI, also implicates risks of discrimination and unfair treatment, which has stimulated a flurry of normative guidelines. This article seeks to explore how a sample of these international high-level principled ideas on fairness translate into the specific governance of ADM in national public sector authorities in Sweden. It does so by answering the question of how ideas on AI ethics and fairness are considered in relation to regulation on anti-discrimination in Swedish public sector governance. By using a Scandinavian institutionalist approach to translation theory, we trace how ideas of AI governance and public sector governance translate into state authority practice. Specifically, regarding the definition of ADM, how AI has impacted it as both discourse and technology, and the ideas of “ethics” and “discrimination”. The results indicate that there is a variance in how different organizations understand and translate ideas on AI ethics and discrimination. These tensions need to be addressed in order to develop AI governance practices.
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Centering the Margins of Digital Culture : Data Centers in Sápmi, Climate Change Denial, and the New Space Race
- 2023. - 1
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This volume contains adaptions of three excellent master theses that were written and defended within the international master’s programme Media, communication, and cultural analysis at Södertörn University in 2022. Running since 2009, the programme has more than 100 alumni who are employed in the media, academic and education. In 2020, the programme coordinator together with the programme council and the department council, chose to distinguish the best theses in a printed volume. This is the third volume in the series. The contributions cover a broad range of topics: how the Sami community is implicated and affected by the data center industry that is increasingly being established in the Northern parts of Sweden, Finland and Norway directly impacting Sápmi; how the NIPCC (The Non-Governmental International Panel on Climate Change) can be understood as a cultural industry producing social meaning, not knowledge, in its dissemination of climate disinformation; how what has been coined the contemporary space race has very little to do with its precursor in the 1960s, today it stands for a particular vision for humanity envisioned by tech billionaires such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
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Challenging Digital Communication : Disconnections, toxicity and right-wing digital architecture
- 2021. - 1
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In 2020, the programme coordinator, programme council and department council, Media, Communication and Cultural Analysis, chose to distinguish three theses in one volume. This volume presents adaptations of these works that were written and defended within the framework of the international master’s programme at Södertörn University. It is the first in a series and includes chapters by alumni who graduated in 2020.The contributions deal with discussions of how those in the creative industries manage day-to-day life in hyperconnected pandemic times, how toxic language is experienced and reproduced in gaming environments and what is specific to right-wing digital platforms. Each contribution challenges aspects of digital communication: work overload, toxic language, and behavior or extremist communities, and helps us develop a better understanding of contemporary digital culture from a critical perspective.
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Engaging Media : Fan Communities and Shock Advertisements
- 2024. - 1
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This volume contains adaptions of two excellent master theses that were written and defended within the international master’s programme media, communication, and cultural analysis at Södertörn University in 2023. Running since 2009, the programme has more than 100 alumni who are employed in the media, academic and education. In 2020, the programme coordinator together with the programme council and the department council, chose to distinguish the best theses in a printed volume. This is the fourth volume in the series. The contributions in this volume cover two very different topics: how social media and content streaming sites are used to shape relationships between K-pop superstars BTS and their fan base in Sweden and how vegans/vegetarians respectively meat eaters react to the use of shock advertisements by the organization for animal advocacy, PETA. Although stretching across two such different topics, the chapters share an interest in zooming in on how media can be understood in relation to engagement and emotions.
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- Guyard, Carina, et al.
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Workfulness: governing the disobedient brain
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Cultural Economy. - : Routledge. - 1753-0350 .- 1753-0369. ; 11:6, s. 535-548
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Scandinavian telecommunication company Telenor recently introduced the notion of Workfulness by adapting digital detox to the workplace. Workfulness is a management program aimed at technology-intensive companies that rely strongly on digital media. The program encompasses strategies of disconnection for employees, including mobile and email-free work hours and technology-free meetings, in order to enhance focus and efficiency. This article investigates Workfulness as one prominent example of managerial approaches that are based on neuroscientific assumptions about human decision-making. Drawing on textual materials and interviews, the analysis shows that Workfulness manages digital distractions in the workplace by establishing a form of stimulus-control rather than appealing to rational self-control. Workfulness alludes to the necessity of making choices, but it considers unconscious behavior, which is explained with reference to preconscious workings of the brain. The human brain becomes a battleground between rational and impulsive decisions, and it is the disobedient brain that needs to be governed in order to become an efficient employee. We situate the Workfulness program as part of and at the same time extending the biopolitical economy by incorporating advances in neurosciences into modes of governance.
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Imagining Digital Futures : Music, Chess and Big Tech
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This volume contains adaptions of four noteworthy master theses written within the international master’s programme in Media, Communication, and Cultural Analysis at Södertörn University and defended in June 2021. Running since 2009, the programme has more than 100 alumni who are employed in the media, academia and education. In 2020, the programme coordinator, together with the programme and department councils, chose to distinguish the best theses in a printed volume. This second volume includes chapters by graduates in 2021, a challenging year by any measure. Nevertheless, the students showed dedication to their subjects and produced high quality essays. The contributions cover a broad range of topics: how young, second-generation migrants negotiate belonging though music listening practices; how the classical game of chess is changing through novel forms of community engagement, including live streaming; the future narratives that Facebook and its affiliates have constructed, and finally, how the smart city is narrated as a place of future primitivism, focused on leisure and fun rather than work and duties.
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Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research
- 2016
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This collection reflects the need for suitable methods to answer emerging questions that result from the ever-changing media environment. As media technologies and infrastructures become inseparably interwoven with social constellations, scholars from varying disciplines increasingly investigate their characteristics, functioning, relevance and impact - facing new methodological challenges as well as opportunities. Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research engages with the substantial need to rethink established methods to research acute changes in the media environment. The book gathers chapters dedicated to the multifacetedness and liveliness of emerging methods - from lifelogging and ethnography to digital methods and visualization - while embedding them in the rich history of interdisciplinary empirical research. Innovation here is a call for widening and rethinking research methods to stimulate a sophisticated debate on and exploration of contemporary methodological approaches for scholars at various levels of academic life. Accompanied by introductory sections of prominent scholars, the majority of empirical studies gathered in this volume are accomplished through early-career scholars who strive to advance cutting-edge and in parts even provocative approaches for the study of media and communication. The book’s four sections on Materiality, Technology, Experience and Visualization are introduced by Saskia Sassen, Noortje Marres, Sarah Pink and Lev Manovich.
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- Kaun, Anne, 1983-
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Archiving Protest Digitally : The Temporal Regime of Immediation
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Journal of Communication. - 1932-8036. ; 10, s. 5395-5408
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Media technologies are crucial for the experience of time and temporality. Hence, changes in the technological configurations of the media ecology have far-reaching consequences for temporal experiences and practices. At the same time, social practices are shaping media technologies in diverse ways. One way the dialectical relationship between time and technology is expressed is the current preservation of the past for future generations. In that context the notion of the archive as practice and institution has long been central to discussions of social organization and cultural production. However, archival practices are changing with digitization. This article explores the changes in temporality of the archive through the lens of protest movements that are both objects of archiving and subjects of self-archiving practices. Combining experiences with different kinds of archives ranging from the institutional physical archive to digital archives including born-digital materials, I ask after the consequences of the changing temporalities and time regimes of the archive in terms of its politics and, ultimately, after the historicity of protest movements.
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- Kaun, Anne, 1983-, et al.
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Automating public administration : Citizens’ attitudes towards automated decision-making across Estonia, Sweden, and Germany
- 2024
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Ingår i: Information, Communication and Society. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1369-118X .- 1468-4462. ; 27:2, s. 314-332
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although algorithms are increasingly used for enabling the automation of tasks in public administration of welfare states, the citizens’ knowledge of, experiences with and attitudes towards automated decision-making (ADM) in public administration are still less known. This article strives to reveal the perspectives of citizens who are increasingly exposed to ADM systems, relying on a comparative analysis of a representative survey conducted in Estonia, Germany, and Sweden. The findings show that there are important differences between the three countries when it comes to awareness, trust, and perceived suitability of ADM in public administration, which map onto historical differences in welfare provisions or so-called welfare regimes.
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- Kaun, Anne, 1983-
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Being a Young Citizen in Estonia : An Exploration of Young People's Civic and Media Experiences
- 2013. - 1
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- The book gives an intriguing insight into how young people in Estonia, twenty years after the establishment of democracy, perceive their own role as citizens. It does so in a theoretical framework that stresses the embeddedness of the civic experiences in a media-dominated environment, thus closely linking civic and media experiences. Based on the analysis of both qualitative interview data and a relatively new method of using the internet as a complementary tool for engaging with open-ended diaries, the study explores the extent to which young citizens experience the media as being interwoven with their everyday lives and, in fact, constitutive of their social reality as citizens. With its particular focus on young Estonians, i.e. on a generation that has been brought up in a context of rapid political, economic and social change and that is well-known for its fascination with new communication technologies, the book is a valuable contribution to the growing international research on media and civic experiences.
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- Kaun, Anne, 1983-
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Citizenship und Partizipation
- 2015
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Ingår i: Handbuch Cultural Studies und Medienanalyse. - Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. - 9783531183473 ; , s. 181-189
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Kaun, Anne, 1983-
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Civic experiences and public connection : media and young people in Estonia
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- How do young people in Estonia experience the political, politics and citizenship? How are these civic experiences connected to young peoples’ experiences with the media? Anne Kaun’s thesis Civic Experiences and Public Connection presents a theoretical and empirical investigation of how civic experiences, particularly public connection, emerge in the context of contemporary Estonia. Employing open-ended online diaries and in-depth interviews, she aims to develop an in-depth understanding of how young people experience democracy today, and how they express themselves as citizens; expression not only through the physical performance of citizenship, but also through orientation, interest in, and reflection about issues that are of common concern or should be seen as such. The empirical investigation of public connection as critical media connection, playful public connection and historical public connection, is based on narrative analysis and embedded in a theoretical exploration of key concepts in the context of civic culture studies, namely the political, politics and citizenship.Combining Chantal Mouffe’s conflict theory with Paul Ricoeur’s narrative identity, Kaun aims to shed light on contemporary democracy from the citizens’ perspective. The author proposes a holistic approach to both civic experiences and the role that media might play in relation to them. Following a non-media- centric approach, she shows that media, despite their ubiquity, are an important but not exclusive source of the civic experiences of young adults in Estonia.
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- Kaun, Anne, 1983-
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Crisis and Critique – Occupy in the European Periphery
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the last years several new kinds of protest movements have appeared around the world. The occupy movement that started out as local occupation in New York and which was adopted in different places all over the world can be considered as the latest example of forms of subterranean politics (Kaldor et al. 2012). This paper considers critical media practices by Occupy groups in the European periphery namely Sweden, Latvia and Estonia. As the Occupy movement born in New York was initially largely invisible in mainstream media, the world learned about it through social media. What first was a pragmatic approach to spread the word became a critique of the impetus of mainstream media that are ignoring the 99% of society. Occupy is hence not only considered as an expression of a change in forms of social and political activism, but also in how communicative power is claimed and achieved.
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- Kaun, Anne, 1983-, et al.
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Crosscurrents : Welfare
- 2023
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Ingår i: Media Culture and Society. - London : Sage Publications. - 0163-4437 .- 1460-3675. ; 45:4, s. 877-883
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this crosscurrent contribution, we approach the notion of welfare through the lens of the data welfare state. We, further, suggest that datafied welfare can be fruitfully studied with the capabilities approach to better understand how ideas and values of data welfare intersect with and may allow for the ‘good’ life and human flourishing. The main aim is to highlight the deep-seated changes of the welfare state that emerge with the delegation of care and control tasks to algorithmic systems and the automation based on datafication practices. Welfare provision is undergoing major shifts that imply fundamentally rethinking the role of technology that supports and enhances welfare with the help of data.
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- Kaun, Anne, 1983-, et al.
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Datafication and the Welfare State : An Introduction
- 2020
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Ingår i: Global Perspectives. - : University of California Press. - 2575-7350. ; 1:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Both vehemently protected and attacked in equal measure, the welfare state as an idea and as a policy agenda remains as relevant as ever. It refers not only to a program of social welfare and the provision of social services, but also to a model of the state and the economy. According to Offe (1984), the welfare state in advanced capitalist economies is a formula that consists of the explicit obligation of the state apparatus to provide assistance and support to those citizens who suffer from specific needs and risks characteristic of the market society, and it is based on a recognition of the formal role of labor unions in both collective bargaining and the formation of public policy. Although actively dismantled in recent decades as globalization and neoliberalism have taken hold of much of the modern world-system, its future continues to be fought over. It serves as a model for society that is seen to privilege a commitment to decommodification, universal access, and social solidarity as a way to overcome the most prominent contradictions of capitalism. A product of the twinned global crises of the Great Depression and the Second World War, the modern welfare state therefore encapsulates a moment of political and economic settlement, a mechanism of stabilization that arguably could emerge only out of such crises.
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- Kaun, Anne, 1983-, et al.
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Digital Activism : After the Hype
- 2018
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Ingår i: New Media and Society. - : Sage Publications. - 1461-4448 .- 1461-7315. ; 20:6, s. 2099-2106
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research on digital activism has gained traction in recent years. At the same time, it remains a diverse and open field that lacks a coherent mode of inquiry. For the better or worse, digital activism remains a fuzzy term. In this introduction to a special issue on digital activism, we review current attempts to periodize and historicize digital activism. Although there is growing body of research on digitial activism, many contributions remain limited through their ahistorical approach and the digital universalism that they imply. Based on the contributions to the special issue, we argue for studying digital activisms in a way that traverses a two-dimensional axis of digital technologies and activist practices, striking the balance between context and media-specificity.
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- Kaun, Anne, 1983-, et al.
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Digital care work at public libraries : Making Digital First possible
- 2024
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Ingår i: New Media and Society. - : Sage Publications. - 1461-4448 .- 1461-7315. ; 26:7, s. 3751-3766
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Claims of becoming the first, the best, and the most digitized are standard rather than outstanding in most public-facing digitalization agendas and strategy documents of countries in the Global North. These grand narratives of digitalization need translation through concrete practices by sometimes unexpected actors-in this case, librarians. This article develops the notion of digital care work based on 18 book-chapter-length essays by active librarians based at Swedish public libraries. It illustrates that librarians are central to the process of translating digitalization into reality; they have become ambassadors of digitalization not only by fostering digital skills and competences in workshops and official training sessions but also, we argue, through a specific form of digital work, namely, digital care work. This kind of gendered work, which is typically carried out alongside the official tasks and assignments of librarians, is of low prestige and often involves affective aspects, such as emotions of shame and uncertainty.
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- Kaun, Anne, 1983-, et al.
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Doing time, the smart way? Temporalities of the smart prison
- 2020
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Ingår i: New Media and Society. - : Sage Publications. - 1461-4448 .- 1461-7315. ; 22:9, s. 1580-1599
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article engages with the notion of the smart prison to develop an understanding of emerging temporalities of digital technologies. The prison context serves here as a magnifying glass that makes certain contradictions and paradoxes of the digital imperative visible. Starting with a brief discussion of smart technology discourses, the article explores the temporalities of real-timeness, prediction and pre-emption that are entangled with digital technologies. Analysing the Spartan RFID tracking tool, the use of algorithms in prison administration and a mobile phone application used in Swedish probation, the article identifies a desynchronization between the temporalities of the incarcerated individuals’ lived experience and the (imagined) temporalities of the smart prison. The findings point to developments that are relevant for the smart, digital society beyond the prison walls.
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- Kaun, Anne, 1983-, et al.
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Facebook time : Technological and institutional affordances for media memories
- 2014
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Ingår i: New Media and Society. - : SAGE Publications. - 1461-4448 .- 1461-7315. ; 16:7, s. 1154-1168
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- People are spending increasingly more time on social media platforms, with Facebook being the biggest and most successful. Historically, media technologies have for long been considered of importance for the structuration and the experience of time in general. In this article, we investigate the technological affordances of Facebook for the temporal experiences of its users. Relying on a case study of a Facebook page dedicated to media memories, we link user experiences to technological and institutional affordances. By doing so, we seek to answer the question of how a business model and an infrastructure that largely build on immediacy and newness are experienced and negotiated by users that engage in a multiplicity of durations and time layers in their everyday lives. Drawing on a platform analysis, in-depth interviews and a survey among the users of the page “DT64—Das Jugendradio der DDR,” we develop the concept of “social media time” while considering notions of the archive, flow, and narrative, which contribute to shedding light on how specific media technologies afford specific temporalities. We conclude by discussing the consequences for the users and society at large.
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- Kaun, Anne, 1983-, et al.
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Fängelser och medier: arbete, arkitektur och teknikutveckling
- 2021
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Ingår i: Tidskrift för Kriminalvård. - : Svenska Fångvårdssällskapet. - 0040-6821. ; :December 2
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Förhållandet mellan fängelser och medier utforskas i en ny bok av medieforskarna Anne Kaun och Fredrik Stiernstedt. I boken Prison Media – Work, Architecture and Technology Development används såväl historiska som nutida exempel för att analysera hur fängelser varit – och är – av central betydelse för utvecklingen av mediesystem och kommunikationsinfrastrukturer, men också hur fängelser i sig själva kan förstås som en slags medier.
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- Kaun, Anne, 1983-
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‘I really don’t like them!’ – Exploring citizens’ media criticism
- 2014
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Ingår i: European Journal of Cultural Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 1367-5494 .- 1460-3551. ; 17:5, s. 489-506
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In information and media affluent societies, the critical ability of citizens is increasingly important. This is reflected in a number of political initiatives that aim at engaging citizens in questions of media content and production, often labelled as media literacy. In this context, skills related to media technologies that are often accentuated in media literacy education are a necessary but not sufficient condition for media literacy. Critical reflexivity and critical practices are crucial for media literacy and therefore in the centre of this article. This article proposes an analysis of media criticism from a citizens’ perspective. Drawing on solicited, open-ended online diaries as well as in-depth interviews with young Estonian citizens, the article applies an inductive approach to media criticism while paying attention to the specific context in which the media criticism arises.
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- Kaun, Anne, 1983-, et al.
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In search of the invisible (audiences)
- 2016
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Ingår i: Participations. - 1749-8716. ; 13:1, s. 334-348
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The paper presents an overview over research that considers invisible audiences. Fundamentally we understand media audiences as ‘people who receive, co-create, interpret, understand and appropriate media messages’ (Reifová and Pavlíčková, 2013:130). Within this realm, we identify and define invisible audiences in a twofold way. Firstly we consider research on audience groups that have been marginalized by both mainstream media and mainstream audience studies such as post-socialist audiences, working class audiences and very young audiences. Secondly we consider audience groups that are literally invisible including practices of lurking in social media environments as well as unintended audiences. The literature review of research of the past ten years on invisible audiences identifies important gaps for both forms of invisible audiences. In conclusion, we suggest more extensive research on the diverse groups of invisible audiences on a more structural level, i.e. questions of certain social, political as well as cultural groups are rendered invisible. Furthermore we suggest that studies consider practices of invisible audiences on the micro, experiential level from the perspective of members of invisible audiences.
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- Kaun, Anne, 1983-, et al.
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In the Shadows of the Digital Economy : The Ghost Work of Infrastructural Labor
- 2020
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Ingår i: Selected Papers of Internet Research 2020. - : The Association of Internet Researchers.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- What does digital piecework have in common with laboring in the warehouse of a large online shopping platform? How is data cleaning related to digitization work and AI training in prisons? This panel suggests bringing these diverse ways of laboring in the digital economies together by considering these practices as infrastructural labor that takes the shape of shadow work (Illich, 1981) and ghost labor (Gray & Suri, 2019). Work and labor in modern, capitalist society imply power, authority and possibility for resistance, and these dimensions are crucial for understanding why and how infrastructures are realized and how they work. Infrastructure labor is ambiguous. It is both visible and invisible depending on the specific tasks and their inherent power relations (Leigh Star & Strauss, 1999). It includes both manual and cognitive labor. It is geared towards innovation as well as repair, maintenance and servitude. The panel aims to paint the contours of infrastructural labor at the margins of digital economies pointing towards forms of alienation and resistance that have for long been part of labor relations, but that are renegotiated in the context of emerging technologies within digital economies that need human labor to be sustained and further innovated.
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- Kaun, Anne, 1983-
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Jürgen Habermas (1962) The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere : An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
- 2024
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Ingår i: Classics in Media Theory. - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge. - 9781040026519 - 9781032557960 ; , s. 96-110
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- For those interested in issues related to the media, politics and democracy, it seems impossible not to engage with the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas’s book The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, published in 1962. This book is in equal parts a normative statement of how an ideal public sphere should function and an analytical description of the rise and fall of the bourgeois public sphere in the 19th century. Habermas uses ideas from different fields and research areas, such as critical theory, political philosophy, sociology and history. His text intertwines and draws on various materials, from legal texts, popular literature and newspaper articles to public documents and historical secondary literature, to create an exciting but difficult reading experience. In this chapter, I will unravel Habermas’s argument and critically discuss the relevance of his book today.
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- Kaun, Anne, 1983-
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Jürgen Habermas: Borgerlig offentlighet (1962)
- 2020
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Ingår i: Medievetenskapens idétraditioner. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144130712 ; , s. 111-124
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- Kaun, Anne, 1983-
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Mapping civic experiences in Estonia
- 2012
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Ingår i: Communications. - Berlin, New York : Mouton de Gruyter. - 0341-2059 .- 1613-4087. ; 37:3, s. 253-274
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article concerns civic experiences beyond or prior to civic action. Approaching questions of civic culture and democracy by way of the rather broad notion of civic experience, the author suggests that democratic values and processes involving citizens’ participation should be understood as deeply anchored in the lifeworld. The article establishes a view in which civic culture is understood from a holistic perspective as an experience. At the same time, the author is interested in the ways in which media are involved in that process, without assuming their predominance in fostering civic engagement and public connection. Drawing mainly on 20 solicited, open-ended online diaries with young adults from Narva, Tartu, and Tallinn in Estonia and the European Social Survey Round 5, the article proposes civic experience as a helpful notion to overcome the generic divide between utopian and dystopian views on the relationship between media and civic culture.
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- Kaun, Anne, 1983-, et al.
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Mapping the automated decision-making landscape in Swedish and Estonian welfarestate
- 2023
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report summarizes the findings from desk research in Sweden and Estonia mapping and documenting automated decision-making tools and support systems in use in the public sector of both countries. The report provides a general overview over governance and implementation principles as well as several shorter descriptions of specific case studies in both countries. The findings indicate that there are several ADM applications in use in both the Swedish and Estonian public sector that range from administrative backend automation to front end automation of communication channels including chatbots. The landscape is however fast changing partly because of the fast-evolving technology but also and especially due to the primarily pilot character of many ADM projects in both countries. The report ends by outlining methodological challenges and provides future directions for further research.
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- Kaun, Anne, 1983-, et al.
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Media Memories : Radio DT64
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Social networking sites play many roles in the everyday lives of their users. A growing body of research suggests that platforms such as Facebook fundamentally change the way memories are performed. This article takes the former East-German youth radio DT64 as a starting point to analyse how media are remembered and how practices of remembering by music audiences might be altered with social networking sites. Drawing on in-depth interviews with former listeners and an analysis of one Facebook group dedicated to the radio station, the article suggests that SNS offer new potentials for media memories that are collaborative and take place in public. The former listeners we interviewed remain, however, sceptical and confirm only limited participation in new forms of performing media memories online. The article discusses the changing nature of media memories in the context of a changing media landscape by looking at questions of identity, temporality and alternativity.
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- Kaun, Anne, 1983-, et al.
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Media Memories: The Case of Youth Radio DT64
- 2012
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Ingår i: Participations. - 1749-8716. ; 9:2, s. 337-359
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Social networking sites (SNS) play many roles in the everyday lives of their users. A growing body of research suggests that platforms such as Facebook also fundamentally change the way memories are performed. This article takes the former East-German youth radio DT64 as a starting point to analyse how media are remembered and how practices of remembering by music audiences might be altered with social networking sites. Drawing on in-depth interviews with former listeners and an analysis of one Facebook group dedicated to the radio station, the article suggests that SNS offer new potentials for media memories that are collaborative and take place in public. The former listeners we interviewed remain, however, sceptical and confirm only limited participation in new forms of performing media memories online. Ultimately, the article discusses the changing nature of media memories in the context of a changing media landscape by looking at questions of identity, temporality and alternativity.
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- Kaun, Anne, 1983-, et al.
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Media Memory Practices and Community of Remembrance : Youth Radio DT64
- 2015
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Ingår i: Memory in a Mediated World. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9781137470119 ; , s. 195-209
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter considers a current example of an online site for the commemoration of cultural artefacts from the former GDR, the Facebook page DT64 – Das Jugendradio der DDR that is dedicated to a former youth radio station. We analyse the page not so much as an example of persistent Ostalgia, but as an illustration of how media memories are performed in our digital age entangling individual and collective memories. The chapter discusses the changing nature of media memories in the context of an altered media ecology from a media and communications perspective by looking at questions of how users experience the performance of media memories online in relation to a given infrastructure that both allows and constraints specific media-related practices.
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- Kaun, Anne, 1983-, et al.
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Media Times : Mediating Time - Temporalizing Media: Introduction
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Journal of Communication. - 1932-8036. ; 10, s. 52016-5212
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Special Section presents the work of the Scandinavian network Mediatization Times, which has gathered scholars with diverse backgrounds to discuss the complex relationship between time and the media. The contributions link to discussions of history and memory, liveness, and simultaneous presence as well as cultural techniques and infrastructures for temporal mediation. The section suggests that there is a renewed need to discuss temporal aspects of media and social change in the context of digital culture.
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