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Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves 2014th Edition, Kindle Edition

by Jill Walker Rettberg (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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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)

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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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00O4CHBKM
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Palgrave Macmillan; 2014th edition (October 2, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 2, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1045 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 111 pages

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I'm Jill Walker Rettberg, a professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway, and I do research on how people tell stories online.

My new book, "Machine Vision: How Algorithms Change the Way We See the World," will be out on Polity in September 2023, and will be available to purchase in print and as an open access publication digitally.

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Sandy Brown Jensen

Clear Vision, Clear Prose

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2015

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There's lots to love about this book, not the least is which is the author's refusal to write in what I call "academic quack-quack." She has lots of highlightable things to say about the history and psychology of selfies, and she says it in uncluttered prose. Her chapters on the gamified life, living the quantified life, life blogging, privacy and surveillance are each little gems.

Rettner's hot linked bibliography is a rabbit hole leading the reader further into the internet labyrinth of machine vision, how the advertisers see us and our illusions of control.
I appreciate, too, that Rettner chose to publish this fine document for free and under a creative commons license--way to subvert the culture of copyright!

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Tiago

Cogent, but outdated

Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2019

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This was a good book with some insightful observations, and a broad survey of past and current literature on the subject. But in 2019 it’s quite outdated, with all the revelations and events of the past few years. The Quantified Self movement has also evolved quite a bit, as has the state of consumer technology. I think new writing and scholarship is needed that takes these recent events into account.

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Robert Nagle, Editor of Personville Press

Always a delight to read...

Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2018

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As strange as this sounds, about a decade ago (maybe 2006-7) I read and downloaded Ms. Rettberg's dissertation and spent the entire night reading it from start to finish. Lots of brilliant insights into narrative, first class stuff. I was going to write a reaction to it a long time ago, forgot (or got sidetracked), and now this review is my mea culpa. Glad to stumble upon something more recent. ...

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2015

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I had hoped for a fun book, but I believe this is someone's thesis or dissertation. It's very heavy on research and a bit dry. Not totally a bad thing just know is not a light hearted read.

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artdale

Very insightful

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2017

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Although somewhat dated - I could not find many of the apps mentioned - this book explains a great deal about the appeal of social media, the quantified self and their attendant dangers

Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2018

Here is what you are in for, page 52:
The first day I wore my Narrative Clip I fastened it to my shirt at chest
height. Downloading the images at the end of the day, I found dozens
of photos of trees and clouds, some obscured by my long hair partially
covering the camera. The camera had been tilted upwards due to the
angle of my breasts. Looking at the Wikipedia entry for ‘Lifelogging’
I noticed a composite image of four phases of wearable camera from
Steve Mann in the 1980s until today, where the cameras were all worn
on necklaces, by flat chested men in t-shirts. Lifelogging cameras were
designed for people with flat chests, I concluded.
So I tried wearing the camera higher, clipping it to the top of my
shirt’s neckline, almost up by my shoulder, hoping that this would tilt it
to capture more of what I saw when looking straight ahead. The results
weren’t much better, but the device did capture some faces of passersby
in addition to the clouds and trees. I wore it walking to my six-year-old’s
school to pick her up and walking home with her as she cheerfully rode
her scooter beside me. To my disappointment, when I viewed the images,
my daughter was not in any of the photos. Neither did the Narrative Clip
capture any photos of my four-year-old son when I wore the camera
while playing with him at a playground. My children were invisible to
the camera. I tried wearing it clipped to the pocket of my jeans instead,
thinking I just needed to get the camera closer to their height. This time
it did capture a couple of blurry photographs of the backs of my kids’
heads as they shot off ahead of me on their scooters. But the photos from
the playground itself were mostly of the clouds again, because when I
sat down to watch the kids play the camera, still fastened to the front
pocket of my jeans, tilted upwards. After the playground we went to a
café, and there the camera captured its hitherto clearest images of people.
Unfortunately, the people captured were the people at the table next to
ours, people I had barely noticed at the time. The next day, I walked with
my daughter again, and we sat down to eat our lunch, happening to sit
across from a large advertisement pasted to the brick wall. My Narrative
Clip captured several photos of the model’s face, and its facial recognition
algorithms marked this as an important moment, making the ad the cover image for the series of photos from that afternoon. Later,
my daughter wore the camera during her ballet class. Even there, with
mirrors covering the walls and the camera clipped to the chest of her
leotard, at the same height as the other children, almost all the images
were of the ceiling, or her long hair falling in front of the lens, or the
back of another child’s head.
Clearly, the Narrative Clip doesn’t record my subjectively memorable
moments. It doesn’t even record what I see: in fact, the ‘best’ images – such
as those of the people at the table next to ours at the café or the photo of
the advertisement pasted on the wall – are photos of people and things
that were outside of my field of vision or that I had quickly dismissed
as unimportant. Strikingly, my children were almost completely erased
from my life as envisioned by the Narrative Clip. That is certainly not the
intention of the camera. On the contrary, their marketing videos show
parents capturing everyday moments with children. The Narrative Clip photographs indiscriminately. A photo is taken
every 30 seconds no matter what is in the frame.

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Reviewed in Brazil on November 30, 2016

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This is a really awesome book, helped me a lot through my research on online performance. I really liked how self representation has an historical approach, until we got to now.

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A very good and easy informative read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 2, 2015

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This book is really informative you can get a real sense of just how social media has changed the way we interact with the world around us and it's just another firm of human expression.

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Mr. K. A. Potapov

An accessible tour of tech sociology

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 28, 2016

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Great idea - as a way of getting your articles into the public. Many interesting insights about the humanities of Quantified Self

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