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Profiling machines: mapping the personal information economy
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ISBN: 026227230X 1423725379 9780262272308 9781423725374 0262050730 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) MIT Press

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The cultural and media studies perspectives on the technology of electronic consumer profiling.In this book Greg Elmer brings the perspectives of cultural and media studies to the subject of consumer profiling and feedback technology in the digital economy. He examines the multiplicity of processes that monitor consumers and automatically collect, store, and cross-reference personal information. When we buy a book at Amazon.com or a kayak from L.L. Bean, our transactions are recorded, stored, and deployed to forecast our future behavior--thus we may receive solicitations to buy another book by the same author or the latest in kayaking gear. Elmer charts this process, explaining the technologies that make it possible and examining the social and political implications.Elmer begins by establishing a theoretical framework for his discussion, proposing a "diagrammatic approach" that draws on but questions Foucault's theory of surveillance. In the second part of the book, he presents the historical background of the technology of consumer profiling, including such pre-electronic tools as the census and the warranty card, and describes the software and technology in use today for demographic mapping. In the third part, he looks at two case studies--a marketing event sponsored by Molson that was held in the Canadian Arctic (contrasting the attendees and the indigenous inhabitants) and the use of "cookies" to collect personal information on the World Wide Web, which (along with other similar technologies) automate the process of information collection and cross-referencing. Elmer concludes by considering the politics of profiling, arguing that we must begin to question our everyday electronic routines.


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Locating migrating media
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ISBN: 1283599309 9786613911759 0739142437 0739142410 9780739142417 9780739142431 9781283599306 6613911755 Year: 2010 Publisher: Lanham, Md. Lexington Books

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Locating Migrating Media details the extent to which media productions, both televisual and cinematic, have sought out new and cheaper shot locations, creative staff, and financing around the world. The book contributes to debates about media globalization, focusing on the local impact of new sites of media production. The book's chapters also question the role that film and television industries and local and regional governments play in broader economic develop and tax incentive schemes.

Contracting out Hollywood: runaway productions and foreign location shooting
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ISBN: 0742536947 0742536955 Year: 2005 Publisher: Lanham, Md Rowman & Littlefield

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Compromised data : from social media to big data
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ISBN: 9781501306518 9781501306501 9781501306532 9781501306525 1501306537 1501306529 1501306502 1501306510 9781501306549 1501306545 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York: Bloomsbury academic,

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There has been a data rush in the past decade brought about by online communication and, in particular, social media (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, among others), which promises a new age of digital enlightenment. But social data is compromised: it is being seized by specific economic interests, it leads to a fundamental shift in the relationship between research and the public good, and it fosters new forms of control and surveillance. Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data explores how we perform critical research within a compromised social data framework. The expert, international lineup of contributors explores the limits and challenges of social data research in order to invent and develop new modes of doing public research. At its core, this collection argues that we are witnessing a fundamental reshaping of the social through social data mining


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The permanent campaign : new media, new politics
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ISSN: 15263169 ISBN: 9781433115936 9781433116063 9781453909201 143311593X Year: 2012 Volume: 81 Publisher: New York: Peter Lang,

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