Welcome to an evening with author Mareile Kaufmann, commentator Martin Gundersen (NRKbeta) and host Henrik Syse (PRIO).
The event is open to all. Drinks and light snacks will be served.
How can we live with surveillance today?
"If I had to name one book for understanding ‘information’ in the world today, this would be it. Kaufmann’s work is marvellously wide-ranging while maintaining intellectual rigour; and it’s fun." This is what Geof Bowker from the University of California, Irvine thinks of the newly-published Making Information Matter.
"a go-to text for scholars and professionals working in the fields of surveillance, data studies, and the digitization of specific societal sectors."
(Bristol University Press)
In this launch, Mareile and NRKbeta’s Martin Gundersen discuss how information works in society today. Association, conversion, secrecy and speculation are information strategies that have become central during the past years. Explaining these in detail, they dive into examples from the everyday lives of the police, hackers, children and artists.
But the book does not stop here. Once we understand that we are all part of surveillance, there is also a chance to make a difference. You are invited to discuss how information matters. And how it should matter.
Program
(details later)
- Doors open
- Welcome (Henrik Syse)
- Making Information Matter – an introduction (Mareile Kaufmann)
- How can we live with surveillance today? A conversation with NRKbeta’s Martin Gundersen.
- Open floor (Henrik Syse)
About the author Mareile Kaufmann
Intelligence officers, forensic scientists, software developers and algorithm designers, social media users who were exposed to terror attacks, hackers, artists, children – all of these are part of Mareile’s everyday work. She is a professor at UiO’s Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law with a background in criminology, sociology and cultural studies. Currently, she runs the publicly funded projects "Digital DNA" and "Bodies of Evidence". Mareile has won several prizes, one of which is the University of Oslo's 2023 Award for Young Researchers.
Quotes about Making Information Matter
"The book effectively provides a guide to how to live, situate, engage or extricate oneself." – Adrian McKenzie, Australian National University
"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
"A rich resource for anyone concerned with how information comes to matter, its dominant formations as data, and how data could be made differently." – Lucy Suchman, Lancaster University