Digital Identity in the Age of Big Tech

An accessible introduction to the technical and social construct of digital identity, this book helps students understand how the data they generate through online activities and apps is used and the implications it can have.

Table des matières

Introduction
1. Digital Identity: What is it and how is it formed?
2. External Influence: The tools to mold you.
3. Your Value: Know the power of your data.
4. Social Identity: Your friends tell us who you are.
5. Financial Identity: The power of your social credit score.
6. Health Identity: What you don't know could kill you.
7. Professional Identity: Losing your dream job.
8. Civic Identity: The surveillance state and personal autonomy.
9. Consumer Identity: Did you really buy that?
10. Self-Censoring: Filter bubbles and echo chambers.
11. Cancelling & Doxing: Culling you from the herd.
12. Intersectionality & Digital Identity
13. Reboot: Cleaning up your digital identity.
Glossary
Index

A propos de l'auteur

Cynthia Tysick is the Innovative Pedagogy and Creative Spaces Librarian at the University at Buffalo as well as an Adjunct Professor in their Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Department where she teaches a first-year seminar on digital identity. Cynthia's research explores the formation of digital identities and how individuals construct those identities through various landscapes, both physical and virtual.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Cynthia Tysick
• Edition: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 29.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032887296
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3288729-6
• Pages: 200
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Médias, communication > Sciences des médias; History, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, computer science, Press & journalism, Humanities, Privacy & data protection, Privacy and data protection, News media and journalism, Legal aspects of IT, Computer networking & communications, Internet Guides & Online Services, Internet guides and online services, Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects, Computer networking and communications