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