Profiling Machines: Mapping the Personal Information Economy
byGreg Elmer
ISBN:0262050730
The MIT Press
2004
(179 pages)
This book examines the multiplicity of processes that monitor consumers and automatically collect, store, and cross-reference personal information; the text charts this process, explaining technologies that make it possible and examining the implications.
Chapter 1-
The Culture and Technologies of Profiling
Chapter 2-
A Diagram of Panoptic Surveillance
Chapter 3-
Consumption in the Network Age: Solicitation, Automation, and Networking
Chapter 4-
Mapping Profiles
Chapter 5-
Deploying Profiles in Promotional Events
Chapter 6-
The ‘‘State’’ of a Panoptic Medium
Chapter 7-
The Politics of Profiling