The Triumph of Profiling
The Self in Digital Culture
$29.08
- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
31 May 2019
Summary
Until fairly recently, only serial killers and lunatics had profiles. Yet today, almost everyone is profiled through social media, mobile phones, and a multitude of other methods. But where does the idea of “profiling” come from, how has it changed over time, and what are its implications?
In this book, Andreas Bernard examines contemporary profiling’s roots in late-nineteenth-century criminology, psychology, and psychiatry. Data collection techniques previously used exclusively by…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509536306 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1509536302 |
| Author: | Andreas Bernard, Valentine A. Pakis |
| Publisher: | Polity Press |
| Imprint: | Polity Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 31 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 137mm x 213mm |
Critics Review
“How did surveillance technologies evolve from a sinister past in the panopticon prison or the state police to a contemporary scenario where tracking apps run ubiquitously on the mobile phones of billions of people? In this engaging cultural history of measurement and quantification technologies, Andreas Bernard shows how the technology of profiling migrated from criminology into mainstream use, and how the Web changed from a mythology of mobility and boundlessness to one of location and fixity. Have we fulfilled the dreams of totalitarian governments? Or does today’s infrastructure facilitate some other, new form of society?”
Alexander R. Galloway, author of The Interface Effect
“A valuable commentary on modern digital life.”
Financial Times Advisor
Andreas Bernard
Andreas Bernard is Professor at the Centre for Digital Cultures at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
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