VOLUME 51, ISSUE 3 (Special Issue)
Guest Editors: Christian Pentzold, Anne Kaun, Stine Lomborg & Sille Obelitz Søe
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/comm/51/3/html
EDITORIAL
Publicly Available: Datafied welfare for human flourishing: People-centered perspectives on automation and communication in Europe – Special issue introduction
Christian Pentzold, Anne Kaun, Stine Lomborg, Sille Obelitz Søe
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/commun-2026-0189/html
ARTICLES
Gaming the system or exercising agency? Algorithmic risk, welfare automation, and the paradox of fairness
Freyja Van Den Boom
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/commun-2025-0110/html
Invisible infrastructures, visible breakdowns: Rethinking smart pedestrian crossings through maintenance and everyday use
Maris Männiste
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/commun-2025-0121/html
Open Access: Algorithmic welfare. Disaggregating semi-automated fraud detection by spotlighting human judgment in organizational practices
Astrid Mager, Doris Allhutter
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/commun-2025-0111/html
Open Access: Listening to bureaucratic noise: (Auto-)ethnographic reflections on legal advice encounters in the Dutch data welfare state
Deniz Rana Kuseyri
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/commun-2025-0108/html
When “green” means more data: Climate data contradictions in digital waste governance
Celina Strzelecka
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/commun-2025-0119/html
BOOK REVIEWS
Open Access: Kaun, A., & Masso, A. (2025). The data welfare state. Sage Publications, 136 pp.
Charlotte Högberg
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/commun-2026-0003/html
Open Access: Masiero, S. (2024). Unfair ID. Sage, 218 pp.
Yanti Sastrawan
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/commun-2026-0028/html
Madianou, M. (2024). Technocolonialism: When technology for good is harmful. Polity Press, 248 pp.
Miriana Cascone
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/commun-2026-0060/html
COMMUNICATIONS
Editors: Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz-Lietz & Leen d’Haenens
Associate Editors: Denisa Hejlová, Philippe J. Maarek, Hillel Nossek, Christian Pentzold, Cristina Ponte, Christian Ruggiero, Brigitte Sebbah
Book Review Editors: Olivier Driessens, Stijn Joye, Rebecca Venema
Editorial Management: Viviane Harkort
For questions please contact the editorial management: journal.commun@degruyterbrill.com
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