2010
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14282-6_18
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Digital Personae and Profiles as Representations of Individuals

Abstract: Abstract. This paper explores the concepts of digital personae and profiles and the way they represent individuals. Even though their manifestation as data sets seems similar, they originate in different ways. The differences between the two forms of digital representations have major implications for their connection and application to known individuals. Digital personae are connected to known individuals in the real world, whereas profiles are not. However, different types of identification can establish the… Show more

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“…Several scholars have demonstrated how the technique of algorithmic profiling may undermine individual autonomy and self‐determination, and may risk subverting or antagonizing civil and political rights, such as the right to freedom from unfair discrimination (Ferraris et al ). Yet because profiling involves inferring a set of characteristics (typically behavioral) about an object of interest (Bygrave ), these profiles do not necessarily relate to any specific individual (Roosendaal ; Hildebrandt ) . Rather, they are algorithmic constructions, abstractions of an individual made up of fragments of correlated variables identified from a match between some of her attributes with the profiles inferred from masses of attributes from masses of individuals, which Amoore () calls “data derivatives.” In addition, the profiled individual is typically oblivious to how she is being profiled (or indeed that she is being profiled at all), and has no opportunity to understand the basis upon which assessments about her are made.…”
Section: The New Surveillance and The Rise Of Algorithmic Powermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Several scholars have demonstrated how the technique of algorithmic profiling may undermine individual autonomy and self‐determination, and may risk subverting or antagonizing civil and political rights, such as the right to freedom from unfair discrimination (Ferraris et al ). Yet because profiling involves inferring a set of characteristics (typically behavioral) about an object of interest (Bygrave ), these profiles do not necessarily relate to any specific individual (Roosendaal ; Hildebrandt ) . Rather, they are algorithmic constructions, abstractions of an individual made up of fragments of correlated variables identified from a match between some of her attributes with the profiles inferred from masses of attributes from masses of individuals, which Amoore () calls “data derivatives.” In addition, the profiled individual is typically oblivious to how she is being profiled (or indeed that she is being profiled at all), and has no opportunity to understand the basis upon which assessments about her are made.…”
Section: The New Surveillance and The Rise Of Algorithmic Powermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Dadurch entsteht das Risiko, dass die Profilierung von Heranwachsenden eher den "Schnappschuss" eines Stadiums der Persönlichkeitsentwicklung zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt und in einem bestimmten Kontext darstellen, der zügig durch neue oder erweiterte Selbstkonzepte oder Kontextveränderungen abgelöst wird und damit nicht mehr valide ist. Durch die Zementierung digitaler Abbildung aber entstehen Formen digitaler Personae -"Datenschatten" -, die nur zum Teil selbst kreiert sind, sondern durch externe Beobachtung ermittelt, berechnet und profiliert wurden (Roosendaal 2010). Die personalisierten Dienstleistungen entsprechen so nicht der tatsächlichen jeweiligen Persönlichkeit, sondern produzieren Ergebnisse auf Grundlage eines früheren, unscharfen Abbilds der Persönlichkeitsfacetten und Interessen der jeweils berechneten Person; sie sind zeitlich und kontextuell desintegriert.…”
Section: Reichweite Informationeller Privatheit Bei Der Digitalen Mediennutzung Heranwachsenderunclassified
“…Bouzeghoub and Kostadinov make a distinction between profiles and queries: a profile being a "user model" "defined by a set of attributes" and a query being an "on-demand user need" [13]. Roosendaal offers an additional, distinction, namely one between "digital personae", which are representations of known individuals in the real world and "digital profiles" which are sets of characteristics about persons that can be used as inputs for algorithmic decision making [14].…”
Section: Personalisation Technologies As Adaptive Mirrors Of Personhoodmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Roosendaal leaves the user relatively close to the world of action though the "profiling" of a user [14], in which types of persons defined by measurable variables invoke certain responses of a system abstracted from the world of action. For instance, the automated adjustment of credit ratings based on certain profiles (containing for example gender, ethnicity and occupation), is an example of personalised abstraction for it detaches the generated process from the world of action of a particular person.…”
Section: A Framework Of Narrative Personalisation Technologiesmentioning
confidence: 99%