Index

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Sales data, 5, 8

Satellites, 86–87. See also Geographic information system (GIS)

Saussure, Ferdinand de, 23

Search engines, 115

Seaton, Charles W., 59

Semiotics, 48, 137–138, 151n5. See also Peirce, Charles, and semiotics

Signification, 23, 24, 46, 48

Silence of the Lambs (film), 150n2

Simulation, 24, 88. See also Mapping

dimensions of, 43–45

and profiling, 22

and surveillance, 22, 73, 74

topographical functions of, 147n4

as virtual, 23

Soja, Edward, 10, 11

Solicitation

of consumer information, 57

targeted, 77

Space

cultural studies of, 10–15

issues of, 10, 24–25

Spatial routines, 140–142

Spiders (Web), 26, 115

Superpanopticon, 21

Surveillance, 18, 24. See also Consumer surveillance; Panoptic surveillance

bureaucratic, 19

dimensions of, 43–44

and discrimination, 23

and enticement model, 30

and geographic variables, 21

inadequacy of term, 5

mass, 20

panoptic, 5, 29

personal forms of, 20

and power, 23

as predictive technology, 23

and privacy, 19–20, 21, 23, 30

qualities of, 29

and simulation, 22, 73–74

as superpanopticon, 21

techniques of, 37

and transparency, 30

system of, 22

on Web, 112–131, 142

Sweepstakes, 68. See also Bass Brewers, and Titanic sweepstakes; Molson Breweries USA, and Polar Beach Party

Synopticon, 21, 39

Synoptics and synopticism, 30–31, 39–41, 44. See also Television, synoptic viewing of