Information management in Foucault's analysis of the power-knowledge relations

Authors

  • Sérgio Paulo Maravilhas-Lopes CetacMedia - Universidade do Porto + Universidade de Aveiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/biblios.2013.103

Keywords:

Information management, Electronic surveillance, Power, Knowledge, Information society

Abstract

Foucault showed how power and knowledge are interrelated and how it is exercised over individuals in society, through technologies that allow surveillance increasingly generating more knowledge. We will try to connect the monitoring to knowledge and power that it allows to obtain, as well as the use of electronic technologies to make it. Foucault pointed out how power and knowledge are interrelated and how it is exercised over individuals in society, increasingly generating more knowledge, and we aim to show these relationships, goals and forms of coercion, using new technologies and making use of information management to accumulate this knowledge and exercise it, what will reveal itself in more power to anyone who holds it. Knowledge and information always have been an advantage for those who had it, but the difference is that in the past we knew our guards well and now we simply don’t know who they are, and the power it can have on our lives. We conclude with an allusion to the role of information management in collecting and using this knowledge to better exercise the power.

Author Biography

Sérgio Paulo Maravilhas-Lopes, CetacMedia - Universidade do Porto + Universidade de Aveiro

Doutor em Informação e Comunicação em Plataformas Digitais (Universidade do Porto e Universidade de Aveiro – com Bolsa da FCT). Mestre em Gestão de Informação (FEUP). PósGraduado em TIC (FEUP).Especialista em Inovação e Empreendedorismo Tecnológico (FEUP).Docente Universitário e Investigador Convidado do CETAC.MEDIA (UA+UP)

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Published

2013-07-04

How to Cite

Maravilhas-Lopes, S. P. (2013). Information management in Foucault’s analysis of the power-knowledge relations. Biblios Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, (51), 70–77. https://doi.org/10.5195/biblios.2013.103

Issue

No. 51 (2013)

Section

Review

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