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The triumph of profiling : the self in digital culture / Andreas Bernard ; translated by Valentine A. Pakis.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bernard, Andreas, 1969- (Author)
Other Authors:	Pakis, Valentine A. (Translator)
Other title:	Komplizen des Erkennungsdienstes. English
Format:	Book
Language:	English German
Published:	Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2019.
Subjects:	Self-presentation > Social aspects. Self-perception > Social aspects. Social representations. Personality assessment. Social media > Psychological aspects. Subjectivity.

Table of Contents:

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
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
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
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
From today's perspective
Stigmatization and self-design
The power of internalization
Competitive individuality
The governability of the self in digital culture.