Seeing Ourselves Through Technology : : How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves.

• Author: Rettberg, Jill W.
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Palgrave Macmillan UK,, 2014.; Ã2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (110 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

Intro -- 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 -- 5Quantified 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.