Verified, Tracked, and Visible: A History of the Configuration of the Internet User

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dc.contributor.advisorAlilunas, Peter
dc.contributor.authorSt. Louis, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-10T15:03:44Z
dc.date.available2018-04-10T15:03:44Z
dc.date.issued2018-04-10
dc.description.abstractThe figure of the user is often overlooked in Internet histories, which frequently focus on larger treatments of infrastructure, governance, or major contributions of specific individuals. This thesis constructs a philosophical and ideological history of the Internet user and examines how that figure has changed though the evolution of the Internet. Beginning with the Web 2.0 paradigm in the early 2000s, a growing state and corporate interest in the Internet produced substantial changes to the structure and logic of the Internet that saw the user being placed increasingly at the periphery of online space as the object of state surveillance or behavioral tracking. The three case studies in this thesis investigate the combination of technological constraints and discursive strategies which have aided in shaping the contemporary user from active architect of the Internet itself to passive, ideal consumer of predetermined online experiences.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/23154
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-SA 4.0-US
dc.subjectInternet historyen_US
dc.subjectInternet studiesen_US
dc.subjectMedia historyen_US
dc.subjectPrivacyen_US
dc.subjectSurveillanceen_US
dc.titleVerified, Tracked, and Visible: A History of the Configuration of the Internet User
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineSchool of Journalism and Communication
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.S.

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