Profiling Machines [Electronic resources] : Mapping the Personal Information Economy

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.

Profiling Machines–Mapping the Personal Information Economy

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

Index

List of Tables