Digitizing Identities Doing Identity in a Networked World [Hardcover]

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.

Introduction: Digitising Identities  Irma van der Ploeg and Jason Pridmore  Part I: Sharing and Connecting: Friends and Consumers  1. The Touristic Practice of Performing Identity Online  Anders Albrechtslund and Anne-Mette Albrechtslund  2. A Social API for That: Market Devices and the Stabilization of Digital Identities  Jason Pridmore  3. Caring for the Virtual Self on Social Media: Managing Visibility on Facebook  Daniel Trottier  4. Shaping Childrens Consumer Identity Within Contemporary Dutch Market(ing) Practices  Isolde Sprenkels and Irma van der Ploeg  Part II: Growing Up: Children and Guardians  5. Risk Identities: Constructing Actionable Problems in Dutch Youth  Karolina La Fors-Owczynik and Govert Valkenburg  6. Swimming in the Fishbowl: Young People, Identity and Surveillance in Networked Spaces  Valerie Steeves  7. Makers of Medialc¶