Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann
Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves
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Selfies, blogs and lifelogging devices have become important ways in which we understand ourselves. Jill Walker Rettberg analyses these and related genres as three intertwined modes of self-representation: visual, written and quantitative. Rettberg explores topics like the meaning of Instagram filters, smartphone apps that write your diary for you, and the ways in which governments and commercial entities create their own representations of us from the digital traces we leave behind as we go through our lives.

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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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