1st Edition
AI and the Disruption of Welfare Challenges for Social Work Education and Practice
Chapter One – AI and the disruption of the welfare state: Introduction
Goetz Ottmann and Carolyn Noble
Chapter Two – Managerialism on Steroids: The rise of Artificial Intelligence
Mimi Abramovitz and Jennifer Zelnick
Chapter Three – The rise of the digitally enabled Carceral State and impact on social work
Carolyn Noble and Goetz Ottman
Chapter Four – A critical reflection on the changing capacity of surveillance in digitally mediated welfare services
Mara Sanfelici and Marco Briziarelli
Chapter Five – Automated algorithmic governance in the social services
Goetz Ottmann
Chapter Six – Automated algorithms, epistemological shifts, and the erosion of fundamental legal and ethical principles in the social services
Goetz Ottmann and Iris Silva Brito
Chapter Seven – “Even if Elon Musk was a social worker…”: Coercive past and technological futures in social work in Lithuania, UK and Spain
Eglė Šumskienė, Caroline Bald and Inés Martínez Herrero
Chapter Eight – Ghost in the cell? Artificial Intelligence in prisoners’ rehabilitation: Automation vs. individuality?
Pia Puolakka
Chapter Nine – Data justice: The rise of a movement?
Neil Ballantyne
Chapter Ten – Critical responses to the impacts of generative Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning on social work education and practice
Christine Morley, Phillip Ablett and Matthew Harcus
Chapter Eleven – Resisting the enchantment of LLMs: Ethical implications for social work practice, research, and education - a case study
David Hodgson, Susan Gair and Lynelle Watts
Chapter Twelve – AI, embedded biases, ethical challenges, and feminist counter discourse
Carolyn Noble
Chapter Thirteen – Decolonising Artificial Intelligence (AI) in higher education: A social work perspective
Tammy Crowther, Rugare Mugumbate, Alankaar Sharma and Mim Fox
Chapter Fourteen – Navigating ethical challenges in AI-enhanced Virtual Reality for social work education
Nataša Matulayová and Tatiana Matulayová
Chapter Fifteen – Co-designing culturally responsive simulation based learning: AI, First Peoples’ knowledges, and the implications for social work field education
Bindi Bennett, Rhett Loban, Susan Beetson, Krystal Evans, Matt Victor Dalziel, Gerard Jefferies and Sera Harris
Chapter Sixteen – The digital dimension of Violence Against Women: Conceptualising and integrating Technology-Facilitated Abuse (TFA) in social work education
Rojan Afrouz
Chapter Seventeen – The challenges and impacts of digital intimate partner violence for social work
Jeff Hearn, Ruth Lewis, Kate Seymour and Matthew Hall
Chapter Eighteen – Bridging the digital divide through developmental social work
Elmien Claassens and Antoinette Lombard
Chapter Nineteen – Digital vulnerability, Artificial Intelligence and coercive practices: Contributions from digital social work
Antonio López Peláez and Chaime Marcuello-Servós
Chapter Twenty – Social work/AI entanglements: Educating for a critical relationship-based ethics in social work
Patrick (Paddy) O’Regan, Dorothee Hölscher and Sera Harris
Chapter Twenty-one – Preparing social workers to resist coercive AI through social work education
Sophie Goldingay, David Hodgson, Jennifer Boddy, Lynelle Watts and Sharlene Nipperess
Chapter Twenty-two – Social work education and Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities, challenges, and dilemmas
Melisa Campana Alabarce, Renata Nunes and Andrés Arias Astray
Biography
Goetz Ottmann, PhD, is a senior lecturer at Federation University, Melbourne. He is the author of five books, numerous book chapters, and many reports and peer-reviewed journal articles.
Carolyn Noble, PhD, is a Professor Emerita at ACAP, Sydney, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of several books and many book chapters and peer-reviewed articles.
