Digitizing Identities Doing Identity in a Networked World

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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. Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 6 Copyright......Page 7 Contents......Page 8 List of Figures......Page 10 List of Table......Page 12 Acknowledgements......Page 14 Introduction: Digitizing Identities......Page 16 PART I Sharing and Connecting: Friends and Consumers......Page 34 1 The Touristic Practice of Performing Identity Online......Page 36 2 A Social API for That: Market Devices and the Stabilisation of Digital Identities......Page 52 3 Caring for the Virtual Self on Social Media: Managing Visibility on Facebook......Page 75 4 Shaping Children’s Consumer Identity Within Contemporary Dutch Market(ing) Practices......Page 92 PART II Growing Up: Children and Guardians......Page 116 5 Risk Identities: Constructing Actionable Problems in Dutch Youth......Page 118 6 Swimming in the Fishbowl: Young People, Identity, and Surveillance in Networked Spaces......Page 140 7 Makers of Media Wisdom: Translating and Guarding Media Wisdom in the Netherlands......Page 155 PART III (Mis)Behaving: Suspects and Deviants......Page 176 8 Data Mining ‘Problem Youth’: Looking Closer But Not Seeing Better......Page 178 9 Sorting (Out) Youth: Transformations in Police Practices of Classification and (Social Media) Monitoring of ‘Youth Groups’......Page 199 10 Identifying the Perpetrator: An Ethnographic Study of CCTV in Police Work in Denmark......Page 221 PART IV On the Move: Migrants and Travellers......Page 234 11 The Digital Evacuee: Mediation, ‘Mobility Justice,’ and the Politics of Evacuation......Page 236 12 The Datafication of Mobility and Migration Management: The Mediating State and Its Consequences......Page 257 13 Migrants at/as Risk: Identity Verification and Risk-Assessment Technologies in the Netherlands......Page 276 Contributors......Page 298 Index......Page 304