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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK,
2014.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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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.