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...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam University Press
2014-01-01
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| Series: | NECSUS : European journal of media studies |
| Online Access: | https://www.necsus-ejms.org/test/third-party-diary-tracking-trackers-dutch-governmental-websites-2/ |
| Summary: | 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’? |
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| ISSN: | 2213-0217 |