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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.
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“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)
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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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Seeing Ourselves Through Technology
Book Subtitle: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves
Authors: Jill Walker Rettberg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137476661
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-47664-7Published: 03 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-47666-1Published: 02 October 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 101
Topics: Media Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies, Social Sciences, general, Industries, Children's Literature, Personality and Social Psychology