Courses Taught
- CMN 455: Introduction to Media Studies
- CMN 519: Advertisng as Social Communctn
- CMN 529: Honors/Capitalism&Surveillance
- CMN 619: Histories of New Media
- CMN 619W: Histories of New Media
- CMN 696W: Sem Media Studies/Mobile Media
- CMN 719: Surveillance and Society
Research Interests
- Big Data
- Communication technology
- Consumer and financial culture
- Cultural History
- Finance
- History of Science & Technology
- Media history and theory
- Privacy
- Surveillance
Selected Publications
Lauer, J. (2024). Visualizing Black Telephone Users: Technological Whiteness and Racial Exclusion in Bell System Advertising. Technology and Culture, 65(3), 899-931. doi:10.1353/tech.2024.a933099
Lauer, J. (n.d.). The telephone answering machine: Mediated presence and the participatory condition. New Media & Society, 146144482311593. doi:10.1177/14614448231159350
Lauer, J. (2022). Credit Reporting and the History of Commercial Surveillance in America. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://oxfordre.com/americanhistory/
Lauer, J. (2021). Surveilling. In A. Blair, P. Duguid, A. -S. Goeing, & A. Grafton (Eds.), Information: A Historical Companion (pp. 790-795). Princeton University Press.
Lauer, J., & Lipartito, K. (2021). Surveillance Capitalism in America. University of Pennsylvania Press.
Lauer, J. (2020). Plastic surveillance: Payment cards and the history of transactional data, 1888 to present. BIG DATA & SOCIETY, 7(1). doi:10.1177/2053951720907632
Lauer, J. (2019). The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 124(3), 1019-1021. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhz413
Lauer, J., & Lauer, J. (2017). Creditworthy A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America Introduction. Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/
Lauer, J. (2016). The End of Judgment: Consumer Credit Scoring and Managerial Resistance to the Black Boxing of Creditworthiness. In D. Raff, & P. Scranton (Eds.), The Emergence of Routines: Entrepreneurship, Organization, and Business History (pp. 269-287). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
Lauer, J. (2012). Surveillance history and the history of new media: An evidential paradigm. NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY, 14(4), 566-582. doi:10.1177/1461444811420986