
Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves
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English
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9781137476661
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Acknowledgements
1 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
2 Filtered Reality
Technological and cultural filters
Aestheticising, anesthetising and defamiliarising
Choosing what technology can do
Genres as filters
A filtered world
3 Serial Selfies
Cumulative self-presentations
Time lapse selfies
Profile photos as visual identity
Automatic portraits
4 Automated Diaries
Life poetry told by sensors
Capture all
A photo every 30 seconds
Algorithms to find meaning
Gamified lives
5 Quantified Selves
A fantasy of knowing
Dataism and subjective data visualisation
Measure more
What we cannot measure
The pleasure of control
Machine vision
6 Privacy and Surveillance
Forced portraits
Who the advertisers think I am
Power and discipline
Seeing ourselves
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