DIGSUM-affiliated PhD student Kalle Eriksson – also a member of the research group at Political Science which is focusing on representative democracy and political parties – has recently started work on his thesis.
His work will focus on how political parties in Sweden are interpreting and discussing issues relating to AI and automation. Kalle will analyse what visions of the future, and which views on the relationship between technology and democracy, are implied in such discussions. The thesis will draw on text analysis as well as on ethnographical data, and the interpretive framework is rooted in discourse theory as well as institutional theory.
— I hope that my thesis will make a contribution to the ongoing debate about the relationship between technology and politics, and especially highlight the many political considerations that parties need to make in this area, Kalle says.