Table of Contents

1. Cover
2. 1: Profiles: The Development of a Format
   1. A conceptual history of the profile in the twentieth century
   2. The triumph of the self-made profile
   3. Profiles and the culture of job applications
   4. Constants of external control
   5. Cyberspace and profiles: from the boundless to the captive self
   6. Notes
3. 2: Locations: GPS and the Aesthetics of Suspicion
   1. The history of satellite navigation
   2. On the way to locating individuals
   3. Paradoxes of location
   4. Electronic ankle bracelets
   5. Location-based games
   6. Notes
4. 3: Cavity Searches: Bodily Measurements and the Quantified-Self Movement
   1. Fitbit
   2. Genealogies of self-tracking
   3. Measuring, classifying, discriminating
   4. Introspection and data generation
   5. Lifting the veil
   6. Witnesses for the prosecution
   7. Notes
5. 4: The Forgotten Fear of Registration
   1. The drama of the census
   2. The police as a catalyst of electronic registration
   3. The semantics of the net
   4. The glamour of datafication
   5. Nineteen Eighty-Four from today's perspective
   6. Stigmatization and self-design
   7. Notes
6. 5: The Power of Internalization
   1. Competitive individuality
   2. The governability of the self in digital culture
   3. Notes
7. Works Cited
8. Index
9. End User License Agreement

List of figures

1. Chapter 2
   1. The Spider-Man comic from 1977 that supposedly inspired a judge in New Mexico t…
   2. On the left, a device for electronically monitoring criminals (2009); on the ri…
2. Chapter 3
   1. The automatic step counter kept in Hans Gross's “travelling office box” around …
   2. An advertisement on Fitbit's website (2017).
3. Chapter 4
   1. The “residential form” from the 1987 census in West Germany.

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