10 Growth’s Imagination: Startups and the Cruel Intimacy of the Internet’s Business Model

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of Figures v
4. Notes on Contributors vi
5. Introduction: Rhythm and Vigilance 1
6. Care and Wellbeing
7. Watching Our Selves: Fitness and Mindfulness as Practices of Self-Monitoring in Britain 25
8. ‘I Don’t Have Time to Watch Everybody’: Location-Based Monitoring, Timescapes, and Family Life in Germany 43
9. Tinkering with Time and Technologies in Dementia Care 61
10. Real-Time Monitoring
11. Divergent Temporal Dynamics and Time Work Among Delivery Workers in Denmark and Malta 85
12. Uncertain Times: Citizen App and Temporalities of Personalized Security in New York City 99
13. Synchronizing Orbits and Deep Learning Algorithms: Satellite Surveillance and Civil Sea Rescue Missions in the Mediterranean 116
14. Surveillance in Small Acts: Health Code Rituals during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Xiamen, China 137
15. Systems Past, Present, and Future
16. Privacy as Unfolding: German Netzpolitik and the Legacy of Colonial Registration 159
17. Playtime: Monitoring and Surveillance in NFT Sociality 178
18. Growth’s Imagination: Startups and the Cruel Intimacy of the Internet’s Business Model 196
19. Afterword: Watching, Waiting, Speculating 216
20. Index 225