Episode Synopsis "Making Information Matter: Understanding Surveillance and Making a Difference – review"

In Making Information Matter, Mareile Kaufmann proposes a methodology for studying information practices as a living process, developing her argument through four case studies. Employing a theoretical framework that includes digital criminology, media studies and feminist philosophy, Kaufmann’s complicated picture of how information operates in the real world will be of interest to social scientists and media theorists, writes Sam … Continued

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