Identity theft and the care of the virtual self
Identity theft and the care of the virtual self
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身份盗窃和虚拟自我的照顾
DOI：
10.1080/03085140802357950
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Kevin D. Haggerty
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文献类型：
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作者：
Jennifer R. Whitson;Kevin D. Haggerty
摘要本文分析了主要机构如何公开应对身份盗窃犯罪。它集中于如何鼓励个人对这种可能性负责，以及他们在受害时应该做些什么。这两种截然不同的话语（预防和受害）旨在塑造一个高度警惕的公民，他们的日常生活、家庭环境、消费模式和自我意识都与更广泛的权力动态雅阁。这些措施可以被理解为鼓励照顾虚拟自我-一个更广泛的社会项目特征的信息时代，鼓励个人降低风险，最大限度地发挥潜力，与他们的数据加倍。然而，在身份盗窃的背景下，机构推广的照顾虚拟自我的方法超越了对大多数公民来说合理可行的方法，掩盖了主要机构在促进身份盗窃的先决条件方面所发挥的作用。
Abstract This paper analyses how major institutions are publicly responding to the crime of identity theft. It concentrates on how individuals are encouraged to responsibilize themselves against this potentiality, and what they should do in the event they are victimized. These two distinct discourses (prevention and victimization) aim to fashion a hyper-vigilant citizen whose daily routines, home environment, consumption patterns and sense of self are being brought into accord with wider power dynamics. These measures can be understood as encouraging a care of the virtual self – a wider social project characteristic of an informational age that encourages individuals to reduce the risks and maximize the potentialities related to their data double. In the context of identity theft, however, institutionally promoted methods for the care for the virtual self transcend what is reasonably practicable for most citizens and mask the role played by major institutions in fostering the preconditions for identity theft.