Knowing Digital Justice in the Anthropocene: Developments in Digitalization and AI in Public Sector and Governance
Knowing Digital Justice in the Anthropocene: Developments in Digitalization and AI in Public Sector and Governance
Wednesday, 9 July 2025: 13:00-14:45
Location: FSE015 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC12 Sociology of Law (host committee) Language: English
This session examines current developments of digitalization and AI in the public sector from a governance and a Law and Development perspective. Automated-decision making and potentially discriminatory algorithms may influence the distribution of individual benefits, social welfare, and, the quality of public administration. Digitalization and AI may radically transform governance, ideology, democracy, and justice. Digital access to public services may actually exclude the (digitally) underprivileged. In addition, digital governance can play a role for sustainable development and social justice, especially relating to transitions in the context of the climate crisis. Our Working groups aim to investigate these questions from different theoretical and empirical approaches, including individual, societal as well as organizational/institutional perspectives. In this session, we aim to identify key issues for future research, with a broad focus.
(Joint session of the Working Groups 'Digitalization, AI and Society' and 'Law and Development')
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