This Is a Secret

Learning From Children's Engagement With Surveillance and Secrecy

Bibliographic Data

ID2409079
AuthorsMareile Kaufmann (0000-0002-7982-3418, University of Oslo, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume21
Issue5
Pages424-437
Publication date2021-10-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/15327086211029350
OpenAlexW3178466341
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited41

This article establishes the relevance of surveillance and secrecy as methodological tools, and it substantiates the argument that surveillance and secrecy are not oppositional in character, but overlap. It does so by drawing attention to obvious, but scholarly neglected performers of secrecy and surveillance: children. It discusses what it means to 'work with' surveillance and secrecy as it develops their relevance in case studies involving children. As a contribution to cultural studies, the article shows how surveillance and secrecy 'get to work' by tracing their constitutive character and by providing new angles for understanding points of contact between the two

Argument (complex analysis · Character (mathematics · Computer security · Electronic surveillance · Internet privacy · Political science · Relevance (law · Secrecy · Children's Rights and Participation · Computer Science · Freedom of Expression and Defamation · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Medicine · Psychology

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