Description
| Product ID: | 9781137476647 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Seeing Ourselves Through Technology |
| Subtitle: | How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves |
| Authors: | Author: Jill W. Rettberg |
| Page Count: | 101 |
| Subjects: | Children’s and teenage literature studies: general, Children’s & teenage literature studies, Society and Social Sciences, Cultural studies, Media studies, Sociology, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Industry and industrial studies, Society & social sciences, Cultural studies, Media studies, Sociology, The self, ego, identity, personality, Industry & industrial studies |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. This book is open access under a CC BY license.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. |
| Imprint Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publisher Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-10-03 |
