The Third Party Diary – Tracking the trackers on Dutch governmental websites
This article discusses how the browser plugin Ghostery contributes to a particular understanding of contemporary consumer surveillance by making Web tracking transparent. The Tracker Tracker is a digital methods tool that, by following Ghostery, detects trackers on specific sets of URLs. It was used to examine all the websites of the Government of the Netherlands on a regular basis. Ghostery also invokes a particular informational genre which has an effect on how we understand the issue of Web tracking. The use of such a tool therefore raises a question: what happens when we repurpose an ‘issu... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2014 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | NECSUS, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 195-217 (2014) |
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Amsterdam University Press
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Schlagwörter: | Communication. Mass media / P87-96 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26627844 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2014.1.VELD |
This article discusses how the browser plugin Ghostery contributes to a particular understanding of contemporary consumer surveillance by making Web tracking transparent. The Tracker Tracker is a digital methods tool that, by following Ghostery, detects trackers on specific sets of URLs. It was used to examine all the websites of the Government of the Netherlands on a regular basis. Ghostery also invokes a particular informational genre which has an effect on how we understand the issue of Web tracking. The use of such a tool therefore raises a question: what happens when we repurpose an ‘issue device’ as ‘research device’?