Seeing Ourselves Through Technology

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.

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)

Autorentext
Jill Walker Rettberg is Professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is the author of Blogging (2nd Ed. 2014) and co-editor of a scholarly anthology on World of Warcraft (2008), and has been blogging at jilltxt.net since 2000.

Inhalt

1. Written, Visual and Quantitative Self-representations 2. Filtered Reality 3. Serial Selfies 4. Automated Diaries 5. Quantified Selves 6. Privacy and Surveillance References Index