The triumph of profiling : the self in digital culture / Andreas Bernard ; translated by Valentine A. Pakis.

Translation of: Komplizen des Erkennungsdienstes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- From today's perspective -- Stigmatization and self-design -- The power of internalization -- Competitive individuality -- The governability of the self in digital culture.