[Commlist] New special issue published: COMMUNICATIONS - The European Journal of Communication Research on "Datafied Welfare for Human Flourishing"

VOLUME 51, ISSUE 3
Special Issue: Datafied Welfare for Human Flourishing: People-Centered 
Perspectives on Automation and Communication in Europe
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 /at/ degruyterbrill.com)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/communications-journal/
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