Josh Lauer

Research Interests
- Big Data
- Communication technology
- Consumer and financial culture
- Cultural History
- Finance
- History of Science & Technology
- Media history and theory
- Privacy
- Surveillance
Courses Taught
- CMN 455: Introduction to Media Studies
- CMN 519: Advertisng as Social Comm.
- CMN 596: Spc Top/Comm Research & Lit
- CMN 599: Internship
- CMN 619: Histories of New Media
- CMN 696: Sem/Histories of the New Media
- CMN 696W: Sem/Histories of New Media
- CMN 719: Surveillance and Society
- CMN 772: Sem/Surveillance & Society
Selected Publications
Lauer, J. (2017). Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America. Columbia University Press.
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