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Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
  • What we (think we) know
  • Biases of digital media
  • Agenda
  • Narrative

PART I: DEPARTURES

• Chapter 1. Follow the data
  • Epistemic crossroads
  • Structuring forces of digital communication
  • Towards digital communication systems
• Chapter 2. Step-by-step: Comparing infrastructures, markets, & states
  • Step one: The Digital Communication System Matrix
  • Step two: The continuums
  • Step three: The indicators Future steps: A dynamic framework 

PART II: MAPS 

• Chapter 3. Accessing the Nordic Internets 
  • Waves & wires
  • The rise & fall of incumbent empires
  • Governing access
  • The last mile & the last bastion 
• Chapter 4. The backbone of communication
  • Mermaids & sea serpents
  • Expanding territories
  • The black-boxed backbone
  • Horizons & vertigos  
• Chapter 5. Over-the-top applications 
  • Nordic application environments
  • Platform power
  • Gatekeeping the gatekeepers
  • Ruptures & tectonic plates 
• Chapter 6. Bits of data, bits of power 
  • Surveillance architectures
  • The data asset
  • Datafication of welfare
  • Blocking the data hose? 

PART III: ROUTES

• Chapter 7. A waltz 
  • Big Tech & the welfare state
  • At the mercy of the objects we study 
• Chapter 8. Road to nowhere 
  • Comparing digital communication systems
  • Datafied welfare?
  • Evolving Internet regimes 
• References

Contact the authors to learn more about the book and the research project:

Signe Sophus Lai 
signe.lai@hum.ku.dk

Sofie Flensburg
sofie.flensburg@hum.ku.dk