The behavior economy: The creation of behavior as an object of online surveillance
本文追溯行为在20世纪如何成为常识中理解自我的核心,并指出传统隐私权与自我决定权基于自由主义人性观,无法容纳行为概念,从而削弱了对在线监视的主流批判。
While it’s well known that behavior is the target of systems of online surveillance, explanations of what behavior actually is are much harder to come by. This article provides a brief account of behavior’s twentieth century appearance and journey to a position of centrality in common-sense understandings of who we are. Given that traditional understandings of the right to privacy and self-determination are founded on a liberal humanist understanding of the subject, dominant critiques of online surveillance are seriously compromised by the fact that behavior cannot, strictly speaking, be accommodated within this intellectual framework.