New media is fundamentally changing our

infrastructure

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The graph from Gerhard Fischer

Three Welfare Regimes

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Research by Espin-Andersen

Typical to the Finnish Model

• Secures all from

life’s risks

• Gives security to

individuals, not

families etc.

• Everything is

available to all

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• Based on Laws

• Based on

Residence, not

work

• Focus on

Redistribution

and Services

From Juho Saari’s text

Change and weakening of the

welfare state

• 1990’s: Recession, High Unemployment,

Neoliberalism – Welfare Cuts

• 1990’s-> New Public Management:

privatization, managerialism of public

institutions etc.

• Widening of Income Differences

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Income equality decreases

health and social problems

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Research and graph by Richard

Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

Welfare states are facing problems

Dependency Ratio

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How can new media design be

utilized?

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”Everything can be seen as a matter of good or bad

design.” (Helsinki’s World Design Capital 2012

Application Book)

Really?

Inequalities are maintained and

reproduced without intervetion

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”Selves are socially

made.” (Beverley

Skeggs)

•Bourdieu: habitus, taste

•Feminist philosophers

•Cultural Studies

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family

S

YS T

E

couple

single

M

In Finland there is the little nuclear family &

individual – and a big official system. With

new media we can build something in

between. (Although NGO’s partly do fill this

gap)

Nifty Neighbour – Place to Care

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By Yhteismaa ry (yhteismaa.fi)