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Making Information Matter Mareile Kaufmann (University of Oslo)

Making Information Matter By Mareile Kaufmann (University of Oslo)

Making Information Matter by Mareile Kaufmann (University of Oslo)

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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.

Making Information Matter Summary

Making Information Matter: Understanding Surveillance and Making a Difference by Mareile Kaufmann (University of Oslo)

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.

Making Information Matter Reviews

"An unusually incisive and pragmatic approach to what it means to live with information. Synthesizing thinking from a huge range of disciplines and domains from our worlds of plural information, the book effectively provides a guide to how to live, situate, engage or extricate oneself." Adrian Mackenzie, Australian National University

"A breath of fresh air, a book about data, but uniquely framed as the lively matter of information -- in the sense of 'being in-formation' - and always bringing us back to what makes all this information matter." David Ribes, University of Washington


"A rich resource for anyone concerned with how information understood as always material and relational comes to matter, its dominant formations as data, and how data could be made differently." Lucy Suchman, Lancaster University

"An intriguing account of how data becomes information and is then taken up in material interventions of surveillance and control. By drawing on a wide range of literature, the book demonstrates the complex and ethical relations involved in making information matter in different worlds." Evelyn Ruppert, Goldsmiths, University of London

About Mareile Kaufmann (University of Oslo)

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

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Understanding making-information-matter together

3. Studying materializations a methodology of life cycles

Interlude: Four practices of making information matter

4. Association

5. Conversion

6. Secrecy

7. Speculation

8. The ethics of making information matter

Additional information

NGR9781529233582
9781529233582
1529233585
Making Information Matter: Understanding Surveillance and Making a Difference by Mareile Kaufmann (University of Oslo)
Mareile Kaufmann (University of Oslo)
New
Paperback
Bristol University Press
2024-10-15
186
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