Digitizing Identities: Doing Identity in a Networked World

✍ Scribed by Irma van der Ploeg, Jason Pridmore (eds.)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 308
• Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores contemporary transformations of identities in a digitizing society across a range of domains of modern life. As digital technology and ICTs have come to pervade virtually all aspects of modern societies, the routine registration of personal data has increased exponentially, thus allowing a proliferation of new ways of establishing who we are. Rather than representing straightforward progress, however, these new practices generate important moral and socio-political concerns. While access to and control over personal data is at the heart of many contemporary strategic innovations domains as diverse as migration management, law enforcement, crime and health prevention, "e-governance," internal and external security, to new business models and marketing tools, we also see new forms of exclusion, exploitation, and disadvantage emerging.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
List of Table
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Digitizing Identities
PART I Sharing and Connecting: Friends and Consumers
1 The Touristic Practice of Performing Identity Online
2 A Social API for That: Market Devices and the Stabilisation of Digital Identities
3 Caring for the Virtual Self on Social Media: Managing Visibility on Facebook
4 Shaping Children’s Consumer Identity Within Contemporary Dutch Market(ing) Practices
PART II Growing Up: Children and Guardians
5 Risk Identities: Constructing Actionable Problems in Dutch Youth
6 Swimming in the Fishbowl: Young People, Identity, and Surveillance in Networked Spaces
7 Makers of Media Wisdom: Translating and Guarding Media Wisdom in the Netherlands
PART III (Mis)Behaving: Suspects and Deviants
8 Data Mining ‘Problem Youth’: Looking Closer But Not Seeing Better
9 Sorting (Out) Youth: Transformations in Police Practices of Classification and (Social Media) Monitoring of ‘Youth Groups’
10 Identifying the Perpetrator: An Ethnographic Study of CCTV in Police Work in Denmark
PART IV On the Move: Migrants and Travellers
11 The Digital Evacuee: Mediation, ‘Mobility Justice,’ and the Politics of Evacuation
12 The Datafication of Mobility and Migration Management: The Mediating State and Its Consequences
13 Migrants at/as Risk: Identity Verification and Risk-Assessment Technologies in the Netherlands
Contributors
Index