With digitization and automation processes pervading virtually all aspects and domains of society, the routine registration of personal identifiable data is increasing at an exponential rate. This book, combining recent insights gained from several disciplines-including science and technology studies, surveillance studies, philosophy (social philosophy and philosophy of technology, and computer ethics)-with a range of empirical case studies of topics including law enforcement and policing, marketing, migration, youth care, and security, examines the ways digital technologies of identification are implicated in contemporary transformations of identity in all spheres of life.

Irma van der Ploeg is Senior Research Fellow at UNU-MERIT at Maastricht University Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology.

Jason Pridmore is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University in the Netherlands.

Introduction: Digitising Identities Irma van der Ploeg and Jason Pridmore Part I: Sharing and Connecting: Friends and Consumers 1. The Touristic Practice of Performing Identity Online Anders Albrechtslund and Anne-Mette Albrechtslund 2. A Social API for That: Market Devices and the Stabilization of Digital Identities Jason Pridmore 3. Caring for the Virtual Self on Social Media: Managing Visibility on Facebook Daniel Trottier 4. Shaping Children's Consumer Identity Within Contemporary Dutch Market(ing) Practices Isolde Sprenkels and Irma van der Ploeg Part II: Growing Up: Children and Guardians 5. Risk Identities: Constructing Actionable Problems in Dutch Youth Karolina La Fors-Owczynik and Govert Valkenburg 6. Swimming in the Fishbowl: Young People, Identity and Surveillance in Networked Spaces Valerie Steeves 7. Makers of Media Wisdom: Translating and Guarding Media Wisdom in the Netherlands Isolde Sprenkels and Sally Wyatt Part III: (Mis)Behaving: Suspects and Deviants 8. Data Mining "Problem Youth": Looking Closer But Not Seeing Better Francisca Grommé 9. Sorting (Out) Youth: Transformations in Police Practices of Classification and (Social Media) Monitoring of "Youth Groups" Vlad Niculescu-Dinca, Irma van der Ploeg and Tsjalling Swierstra 10. Identifying the Perpetrator: An Ethnographic Study of CCTV in Police Work in Denmark Peter Lauritsen Part IV: On the Move: Migrants and Travellers 11. The Digital Evacuee: Mediation, "Mobility Justice" and the Politics of Evacuation Peter Adey and Philip Kirby 12. The Datafication of Mobility and Migration Management: The Mediating State and Its Consequences Dennis Broeders and Huub Dijstelbloem 13. Migrants at/as Risk: Identity Verification and Risk Assessment Technologies in the Netherlands Karolina La Fors-Owczynik and Irma van der Ploeg