Seeing Ourselves Through Technology
How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves
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Beschreibung
This book is open access under a CC BY license. Selfies, blogs and lifelogging devices help us understand ourselves, building on long histories of written, visual and quantitative modes of self-representations. This book uses examples to explore the balance between using technology to see ourselves and allowing our machines to tell us who we are.
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Jill W. Rettberg
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Self-representation self-presentation self-portraits selfies life-writing blogging blogs wearables quantified self big data surveillance panopticon new aesthetic machine vision blog
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“The book is a goldmine of historical and contemporary case studies with which readers are invited to visualise the complexity of self-representation practices and artefacts. … thoroughly researched and cross-referenced to both archival and contemporary sources, the language remains clear, jargon-free, and draws readers in through narrative descriptions that are easy to visualize. … strength of Rettberg’s writing is in her highly illustrative explications through which readers are able to visualise her arguments without the aid of devices or technology.” (Crystal Abidin, Mobile Media & Communication, Vol. 4 (2), May, 2016)
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