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

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...

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