New Trends in Societal Security research in the Nordic countries 26 - 27 November 2014 in Stockholm

1. ©Chris Slane
Risto Kunelius
School of Social Sciences and Humanities
University of Tampere, Finland
Security, Privacy
and Trust
The Legitimation Challenge
of the Network Society
A project focusing on ”Societal Security”,
funded by the Academy of Finland
2015 – 2018

2. Two digital infrastructures
A delivery system for contents, services and interaction
A system for surveillance operated by intelligence services and market actors

3. Discursive production of legitimacy
New situation, new questions:
”Can the state, market actors and
technology sector be trusted?”
”What is the relationship between
privacy and security?”
Three spheres of legitimation discourses:
Consensus
= the unspoken discursive contracts
Legitimate controversy
= problems, solutions and actors
brought into public light
Illegitimacy
= actors and arguments excluded
from the discussion

4. STATE
POLITICS
CIVIC ACTION
JOURNALISM
TECHNOLOGY
MARKETS/
CORPORATIONS
CONSUMERS
INDIVIDUALS

5. Beyond media discourse
WP1: Media discourse
In cooperation with a researchers from
eight countries 2014 – 2017
WP2: Policy documents
Desk study 2016 – 2017
WP3: Stakeholder analysis
Interviews 2015 – 2017
WP4: User research
Survey + focus group discussions
2015 – 2017
Conclusions
Final report and policy
recommentations 2018