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      2  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 Notes

      3  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 Notes

      4  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 Notes

      5  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 Nineteen Eighty-Four from today's perspective Stigmatization and self-design Notes

      6  5: The Power of Internalization Competitive individuality The governability of the self in digital culture Notes

      7  Works Cited

      8  Index

      9  End User License Agreement

      1 Chapter 2 The Spider-Man comic from 1977 that supposedly inspired a judge in New Mexico t… On the left, a device for electronically monitoring criminals (2009); on the ri…

      2 Chapter 3 The automatic step counter kept in Hans Gross's “travelling office box” around … An advertisement on Fitbit's website (2017).

      3 Chapter 4 The “residential form” from the 1987 census in West Germany.

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