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Seeing Ourselves Through Technology

How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves

Palgrave Macmillan

Authors:

  1. Jill Walker Rettberg

    1. University of Bergen, Norway

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Written, Visual and Quantitative Self-Representations

    • Jill Walker Rettberg
    Pages 1-19Open Access

  3. Filtered Reality

    • Jill Walker Rettberg
    Pages 20-32Open Access

  4. Serial Selfies

    • Jill Walker Rettberg
    Pages 33-44Open Access

  5. Automated Diaries

    • Jill Walker Rettberg
    Pages 45-60Open Access

  6. Quantified Selves

    • Jill Walker Rettberg
    Pages 61-78Open Access

  7. Privacy and Surveillance

    • Jill Walker Rettberg
    Pages 79-88Open Access

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 89-101
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About this book

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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Keywords

  • Self-representation
  • self-presentation
  • self-portraits
  • selfies
  • life-writing
  • blogging
  • blogs
  • wearables
  • quantified self
  • big data
  • surveillance
  • panopticon
  • new aesthetic
  • machine vision
  • blog
  • Blogs
  • privacy
  • technology
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Reviews

“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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Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Bergen, Norway

    Jill Walker Rettberg

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About the author

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.
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