Book Chapter: Low-tech

Maja Vestad has written a chapter in De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology (edited by Mareile Kaufmann and Heidi Mork Lomell).

First page of the chapter

First page of the chapter

Abstract: We should be careful of overstating the importance of technologies that inspire dramatic narratives. All digital tools and practices have material counterparts, and while some may be less flashy, shiny, and indeed less captivating, they are key players in the fields that we study. This chapter discusses how high- and low-tech operates in tandem and suggests that low-tech must be taken seriously in the development of digital criminological theory.

 

You can read the chapter here. 

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