Making Information Matter - Understanding Surveillance and Making a Difference

Information matters to us. Whether recorded, recoded, or unregistered, information co-shapes our present and our becoming.
This book advances new views on information and surveillance practices. Starting with a methodology for studying the liveliness of information, Kaufmann provides four empirical examples of making information matter: association, conversion, secrecy, and speculation. In so doing, she presents an original and comprehensive argument about the materiality of information and invites us to investigate, and to reflect about what matters.
This is a go-to text for scholars and professionals working in the fields of surveillance, data studies, and the digitization of specific societal sectors.

About the author

Mareile Kaufmann is Professor in Criminology at the University of Oslo.

Summary

This book advances a new view of information and surveillance practices, as well as their related agencies, politics, and powers. Drawing on case studies, the author crafts a new methodology of studying information life cycles which will help us navigate information regimes today.

Product details

• Authors: Mareile Kaufmann, Mareile (University of Oslo) Kaufmann
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2024
• EAN: 9781529233582
• ISBN: 978-1-5292-3358-2
• No. of pages: 186
• Dimensions: 235 mm x 156 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 304 g
• Illustrations: 13 Illustrations, black and white
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories