Biosurveillance in New Media Marketing, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
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Advertising has long been considered a manipulator of minds and has increased significantly in coercive power since the emergence of research in behavioural psychology. Now with the deployment of neuro-physiological imaging technologies into market contexts, companies are turning to neuromarketing to measure how we think and feel. Data driven models are being used to inform advertising strategies designed to trigger human action at a level beneath conscious awareness. This practice can be understood as a form of consumer biosurveillance: but what is behind the hype? What are the consequences?

Biosurveillance in New Media Marketing is a critical reflection on the role that technology is playing in the construction of consumer representations, and its encroachment into the internal lives of individuals and groups. It is a work that examines the relationship between neuromarketing practitioners and machines, and how the discourses and practices emerging from this entanglement are influencing the way we make sense of the world.

1. Introduction: Advertising Futures

2. A Theory of Manipulation: Critical Perspectives

3. The Emergence of Neuromarketing

4. The Discursive World of Neuromarketing: For Whom Are These Technologies Working?

5. Structures of Understanding

6. Worldlessness: The Brain as ‘Buy Button’

7. Poor in World: Augmenting Animality

8. World-Forming: The Agentic Consumer

9. Self-Determination and Implications of Mining the Brain

Selena Nemorin is Lecturer in Sociology of Digital Technology with the Department of Culture, Communication and Media at University College London, UK. Her research and publications explore the dynamic between society and technology. More specifically, she is interested in how socio-technical artefacts construct and categorise individuals and groups as objects for governance.

Offers a comprehensive critical introduction to neuromarketing as a cultural phenomenon and as a system of consumer surveillance

Connects research across media and communication studies, cultural studies, marketing, science and technology studies, and surveillance studies

Examines neuromarketing as a contemporary form of market research that uses brain and bio-imaging technology to track how consumers respond to advertising stimulus