Positions

Research Areas research areas

Selected Publications

Academic Article

Year Title
2024 The telephone answering machine: Mediated presence and the participatory condition.  New Media and Society.  26:6861-6880. 2024
2024 Visualizing Black Telephone Users: Technological Whiteness and Racial Exclusion in Bell System Advertising.  Technology and Culture.  65:899-931. 2024
2020 The Engine of Enterprise: Credit in America..  Enterprise and Society: the international journal of business and history.  21:552-555. 2020
2020 Plastic surveillance: Payment cards and the history of transactional data, 1888 to present.  Big Data and Society.  7:205395172090763-205395172090763. 2020
2019 Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff.  New Media and Society.  21:1879-1881. 2019
2019 The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America.  American Historical Review.  124:1019-1021. 2019
2017 All the Facts: A History of Information in the United States Since 1870.  Journal of Interdisciplinary History.  48:282-283. 2017
2016 American Surveillance: Intelligence, Privacy, and the Fourth Amendment.  Business History Review.  90:793-796. 2016
2012 Surveillance history and the history of new media: An evidential paradigm.  New Media and Society.  14:566-582. 2012
2011 In hock: pawning in America from independence through the Great Depression.  Business History.  53:469-470. 2011
2011 The Market Revolution in America: Liberty, Ambition, and the Eclipse of the Common Good.  Technology and Culture.  52:197-198. 2011
2010 The Good Consumer: Credit Reporting and the Invention of Financial Identity in the United States, 1840-1940.  Enterprise and Society: the international journal of business and history.  11:686-694. 2010
2010 The Good Consumer: Credit Reporting and the Invention of Financial Identity in the United States, 1840–1940.  Enterprise and Society: the international journal of business and history.  11:686-694. 2010
2008 From rumor to written record - Credit reporting and the invention of financial identity in nineteenth-century America.  Technology and Culture.  49:301-324. 2008
2007 Traces of the Real: Autographomania and the Cult of the Signers in Nineteenth-Century America.  Text and Performance Quarterly.  27:143-163. 2007

Book

Year Title
2021 Surveillance Capitalism in America 2021
2017 Creditworthy A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America Introduction 2017

Chapter

Year Title
2022 Credit Reporting and the History of Commercial Surveillance in America 2022
2021 Surveillance Under Capitalism.  Ed. Lauer, Josh.  1-26. 2021
2021 Surveilling.  790-795. 2021
2017 "File Clerk's Paradise" POSTWAR CREDIT REPORTING ON THE EVE OF AUTOMATION.  156-181. 2017
2017 "You Are Judged by Your Credit" TEACHING AND TARGETING THE CONSUMER.  126-155. 2017
2017 A Bureau for the Promotion of Honesty THE BIRTH OF SYSTEMATIC CREDIT SURVEILLANCE.  26-50. 2017
2017 Coming to Terms with Credit THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ORIGINS OF CONSUMER CREDIT SURVEILLANCE.  51-77. 2017
2017 Credit Workers Unite PROFESSIONALIZATION AND THE RISE OF A NATIONAL CREDIT INFRASTRUCTURE.  78-102. 2017
2017 Creditworthy A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America Epilogue.  269-275. 2017
2017 Database Panic COMPUTERIZED CREDIT SURVEILLANCE AND ITS DISCONTENTS.  212-241. 2017
2017 Encoding the Consumer THE COMPUTERIZATION OF CREDIT REPORTING AND CREDIT SCORING.  182-211. 2017
2017 From Debts to Data CREDIT BUREAUS IN THE NEW INFORMATION ECONOMY.  242-267. 2017
2017 Running the Credit Gantlet EXTRACTING, ORDERING, AND COMMUNICATING CONSUMER INFORMATION.  103-125. 2017
2016 The End of Judgment: Consumer Credit Scoring and Managerial Resistance to the Black Boxing of Creditworthiness.  269-287. 2016
2012 Making the Ledgers Talk: Credit Management and the Origins of Retail Data Mining, 1920-1940.  153-169. 2012
2008 Explorations in Communication and History 2008
2008 Communication and history Introduction.  15-18. 2008

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Teaching Activities

  • Advertisng as Social Communctn Taught course
  • Honors/Capitalism&Surveillance Taught course
  • Sem Media Studies/Mobile Media Taught course
  • Seminar in Media Studies Taught course
  • Advertisng as Social Communctn Taught course 2024
  • Surveillance and Society Taught course 2024
  • Advertisng as Social Communctn Taught course 2021
  • Advertisng as Social Communctn Taught course 2021
  • Histories of New Media Taught course 2021
  • Introduction to Media Studies Taught course 2020
  • Surveillance and Society Taught course 2020
  • Histories of New Media Taught course 2020
  • Advertisng as Social Communctn Taught course 2020
  • Histories of New Media Taught course 2020
  • Advertisng as Social Communctn Taught course 2019 - 2020
  • Advertisng as Social Communctn Taught course 2019
  • Seminar in Media Theory Taught course 2019
  • Sem/Histories of the New Media Taught course 2019
  • Advertisng as Social Communctn Taught course 2019
  • Sem/Surveillance & Society Taught course 2019
  • Advertisng as Social Communctn Taught course 2018 - 2019
  • Seminar in Media Theory Taught course 2018
  • Spc Top/Media Studies Taught course 2018
  • Sem/Histories of the New Media Taught course 2018
  • Sem/Histories of New Media Taught course 2018
  • Spc Top/Comm Research & Lit Taught course 2018
  • Advertisng as Social Communctn Taught course 2017 - 2018
  • Seminar in Media Theory Taught course 2017
  • Spc Top/Media Studies Taught course 2017
  • Internship Taught course 2017
  • Sem/Histories of the New Media Taught course 2017
  • Advertisng as Social Comm. Taught course 2017
  • Sem/Histories of New Media Taught course 2017
  • Advertisng as Social Communctn Taught course 2016 - 2017
  • Advertisng as Social Communctn Taught course 2016
  • Sem/Surveillance & Society Taught course 2016
  • Advertisng as Social Communctn Taught course 2016
  • Sem/Histories of New Media Taught course 2016
  • Advertisng as Social Communctn Taught course 2015 - 2016
  • Internship Taught course 2015
  • Advertisng as Social Communctn Taught course 2015
  • Sem/Crit Approaches to Surv Taught course 2015
  • Advertisng as Social Communctn Taught course 2014 - 2015
  • Advertisng as Social Communctn Taught course 2014
  • Sem/Crit Apprchs Surveillance Taught course 2014
  • Advertisng as Social Communctn Taught course 2014
  • Advertisng as Social Communctn Taught course 2014
  • Sem/Crit Approaches to New Med Taught course 2014

    • Education And Training

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  • Josh Lauer

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