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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 can help remind us of our hopes for information and re-envision how it actually appears in our society." LSE Review of Books
"Posits a dynamic conceptualization of information and would be of interest to an array of scholars who are interested in the ontology of information and the power of information use in our society." Surveillance & Society
"An academic masterpiece. Meticulously organized and rigid in its structure, it merges theories from media, technology and security studies to examine what it means to bring information to life." Theoretical Criminology
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