Digitalization in Practice

Intersections, Implications and Interventions

Jessamy Perriam, Katrine Meldgaard Kjær

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110787788
• Subtopic: Information Technology
• Index: Social Sciences

Digitalization in Practice: Intersections, Implications and Interventions shows that as welfare is increasingly digitalized, an investigation of the social implications of this digitalization becomes increasingly pertinent. The book offers chapters on how the state operates, from the day-to-day practices of governance to keeping registers of businesses, from overarching and sometimes contradictory policies to considering how to best include citizens in digitalized processes. Moreover, the book takes a citizen perspective on key issues of access, identification and social harm to consider the social implications of digitalization in the everyday. The diversity of topics in Digitalization in Practice reflects how digitalization as an ongoing process and practice fundamentally impacts and often reshapes the relationship between states and citizens.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction: encountering the intersections, implications and interventions of digital transformation
• Chapter 1 Between bureaucracy and agility: the quiet transformation of the Danish digital state
• Chapter 2 One data state, two data logics: unfolding China’s data governance
• Chapter 3 Digital state APIs: sociotechnical approaches to a small yet important piece of digital infrastructure
• Chapter 4 The digital state overflowing its boundaries: considering the case of digital inclusion in Denmark
• Chapter 5 The politics of seamlessness: a rights claims perspective on digital identification technologies
• Chapter 6 The citizen from hell: experiencing digitalization
• Chapter 7 Matters of subjects: the digital citizen in technology comprehension
• Chapter 8 Poor policy made durable: when digital transformation meets social harm
• Chapter 9 Aggregating like a state: discriminatory data practices of legislated ghettoization in Denmark
• Contributor biographies
• Index