The Triumph of Profiling

* 1. 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 * 2. 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 * 3. 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 * 4. 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 * 1984 from Today's Perspective * Stigmatization and Self-Design * 5. The Power of Internalization * Competitive Individuality * The Governability of the Self in Digital Culture * Notes * Works Cited * Index