Profiling Machines: Mapping the Personal Information Economy

by Greg Elmer

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262050730
• ISBN13: 9780262050739
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher