Core reading

Mattelart, Armand & Vitalis, André, Le Profilage des populations: du livret ouvrier au cybercontrôle (Paris: La Découverte, 2014), pp. 123-155 as scanned extract.

Advance preparation for seminar discussion

1. According to Mattelart and Vitalis, what are the dangers of user profiling?
2. To what extent does their argument tally with other current thinking on this question? (Do some independent research in the secondary material.)*
   
3. What function does consumer capitalism play in these discussions?
   
4. What are the key dimensions of the wider French public and policy debate on electronic surveillance, data security and user profiling?

Further reading

• Angwin, Julia, Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance (New York: Times Books, 2014). See here.
• Barnard-Wills, David, Surveillance and Identity: Discourse, Subjectivity and the State (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012). See here.
• Bauman, Zygmunt and Lyon, David, Liquid Surveillance: a Conversation (Cambridge: Polity, 2013). Available from the Library as an e-book here.
• Custers, Bart et al (eds.), Discrimination and Privacy in the Information Society: Data Mining and Profiling in Large Databases (Berlin and New York: Springer, 2013). Available from the Library as an e-book here.
• Gutwirth, Serge et al (eds.), Data Protection in a Profiled World (Dordrecht and London: Springer, 2010). Available from the Library as an e-book here.
• Gutwirth, Serge et al (eds.), Computers, Privacy and Data Protection: An Element of Choice (Dordrecht and New York: Springer, 2011). Available from the Library as an e-book here.
• Gutwirth, Serge et al (eds.), European Data Protection: Coming of Age (Dordrecht and New York: Springer, 2013). Available from the Library as an e-book here.
  
• Harcourt, Bernard, Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2007). Available from the Library as an e-book here.
• Lyon, David, Surveillance Studies: An Overview (Cambridge: Polity, 2007). See here.
• Lyon, David (ed.), Theorizing Surveillance: The Panopticon and Beyond (Oxford: Routledge, 2011 [2006]). See here.
• Mattelart, Armand, The Globalization of Surveillance: The Origin of the Securitarian Order (Cambridge: Polity, 2010). See here.
• Sadin, Éric, Surveillance globale: enquête sur les nouvelles formes de contrôle (Paris: Flammarion/Climats, 2009). See here.

Slides

Slides for the Week 19 lecture will be available for download here after the lecture.