Amelia Cheston

SSC Seminar Series: Amelia Cheston, Dept of Sociology

Amelia Cheston, MA Candidate, Department of Sociology, Queen's University

The Price of Loyalty: risks and rewards of personal information handling

Mac-Corry Hall, Room D411 (Sociology Lounge)

12:30 - 2:00 pm

Consumer surveillance, seen in the social sorting capabilities of loyalty marketing, is gendered. Men and women are targeted in different ways by different marketing schemes, depending on the calculated value of their digital profiles....

Congratulations Amelia Cheston

News from Queen's Sociology department: "I am pleased to inform you that on June 24, 2013, Amelia Cheston successfully defended her Master’s thesis, “The Price of Loyalty: A Gendered Analysis of Consumer Surveillance”. Her supervisor was David Lyon and the members of the examining committee included Rob Beamish, chair and department head, Martin Hand as the internal examiner and Jay...