The document discusses several topics related to welfare states and new media:
1) New media is fundamentally changing infrastructure and how people interact.
2) There are three main welfare state regimes: Scandinavian (Finland), Continental, Liberal. The Finnish model focuses on universal coverage, redistribution, and services rather than work or family.
3) Welfare states are facing challenges like recession, unemployment, inequality, and aging populations putting pressure on social programs. New media may help address some issues.
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New media and the welfare state
1. New media is fundamentally changing our
infrastructure
The graph from Gerhard Fischer
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3. Typical to the Finnish Model
From Juho Saaris text
Secures all from Based on Laws
lifes risks Based on
Gives security to Residence, not
individuals, not work
families etc. Focus on
Everything is Redistribution
available to all and Services
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4. Change and weakening of the
welfare state
1990s: Recession, High Unemployment,
Neoliberalism Welfare Cuts
1990s-> New Public Management:
privatization, managerialism of public
institutions etc.
Widening of Income Differences
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5. Income equality decreases
health and social problems
Research and graph by Richard
Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
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7. How can new media design be
utilized?
Really?
Everything can be seen as a matter of good or bad
design. (Helsinkis World Design Capital 2012
Application Book)
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8. Inequalities are maintained and
reproduced without intervetion
Selves are socially
made. (Beverley
Skeggs)
Bourdieu: habitus, taste
Feminist philosophers
Cultural Studies
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9. S T
Y In Finland there is the little nuclear family &
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individual and a big official system. With
new media we can build something in
between. (Although NGOs partly do fill this
S gap)
family
couple
M
single
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10. Nifty Neighbour Place to Care
By Yhteismaa ry (yhteismaa.fi)
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