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The Resource Seeing ourselves through technology : how we use selfies, blogs and wearable devices to see and shape ourselves, Jill Walker Rettberg

Seeing ourselves through technology : how we use selfies, blogs and wearable devices to see and shape ourselves, Jill Walker Rettberg

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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
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource
Contents
  • Written, visual and quantitative self-representations : Writing about the self ; Visual self-portraits in history ; The history of quantitative self-representation ; Texts or people? ; Disciplining self-representations
  • Filtered reality : Technological and cultural filters ; Aestheticising, anesthetising and defamiliarising ; Choosing what technology can do ; Genres as filters ; A filtered world
  • Serial selfies : Cumulative self-presentations ; Time lapse selfies ; Profile photos as visual identity ; Automatic portraits
  • Automatic diaries : Life poetry told by sensors ; Capture all ; A photo every 30 seconds ; Algorithms to find meaning ; Gamified lives
  • Quantified selves : A fantasy of knowing ; Dataism and subjective data visualization ; Measure more ; What we cannot measure ; The pleasure of control ; Machine vision
  • Privacy and surveillance ; Force portraits ; Who the advertisers think I am ; Power and discipline ; Seeing ourselves
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9781137476654
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Seeing ourselves through technology : how we use selfies, blogs and wearable devices to see and shape ourselves
Title
Seeing ourselves through technology
Title remainder
how we use selfies, blogs and wearable devices to see and shape ourselves
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Jill Walker Rettberg
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Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
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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UKMGB
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Rettberg, Jill Walker
Dewey number
305
Index
index present
LC call number
BF697
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Palgrave Pivot
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  • Identity (Psychology)
  • Blogs
  • Digital media
  • Media studies
  • Media, information & communication industries
  • Digital media
  • Identity (Psychology)
  • Självuppfattning
  • Sociala medier
  • Media studies
  • Media, entertainment, information & communication industries
  • Media Studies
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Seeing ourselves through technology : how we use selfies, blogs and wearable devices to see and shape ourselves, Jill Walker Rettberg
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Written, visual and quantitative self-representations : Writing about the self ; Visual self-portraits in history ; The history of quantitative self-representation ; Texts or people? ; Disciplining self-representations -- Filtered reality : Technological and cultural filters ; Aestheticising, anesthetising and defamiliarising ; Choosing what technology can do ; Genres as filters ; A filtered world -- Serial selfies : Cumulative self-presentations ; Time lapse selfies ; Profile photos as visual identity ; Automatic portraits -- Automatic diaries : Life poetry told by sensors ; Capture all ; A photo every 30 seconds ; Algorithms to find meaning ; Gamified lives -- Quantified selves : A fantasy of knowing ; Dataism and subjective data visualization ; Measure more ; What we cannot measure ; The pleasure of control ; Machine vision -- Privacy and surveillance ; Force portraits ; Who the advertisers think I am ; Power and discipline ; Seeing ourselves
Control code
892563828
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781137476654
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other control number
10.1057/9781137476661
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)892563828
Label
Seeing ourselves through technology : how we use selfies, blogs and wearable devices to see and shape ourselves, Jill Walker Rettberg
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Written, visual and quantitative self-representations : Writing about the self ; Visual self-portraits in history ; The history of quantitative self-representation ; Texts or people? ; Disciplining self-representations -- Filtered reality : Technological and cultural filters ; Aestheticising, anesthetising and defamiliarising ; Choosing what technology can do ; Genres as filters ; A filtered world -- Serial selfies : Cumulative self-presentations ; Time lapse selfies ; Profile photos as visual identity ; Automatic portraits -- Automatic diaries : Life poetry told by sensors ; Capture all ; A photo every 30 seconds ; Algorithms to find meaning ; Gamified lives -- Quantified selves : A fantasy of knowing ; Dataism and subjective data visualization ; Measure more ; What we cannot measure ; The pleasure of control ; Machine vision -- Privacy and surveillance ; Force portraits ; Who the advertisers think I am ; Power and discipline ; Seeing ourselves
Control code
892563828
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781137476654
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other control number
10.1057/9781137476661
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)892563828

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