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Seeing Ourselves Through Technology
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There are three distinct modes of self- representation in digital media: written, visual and quantitative. Each mode has a separate pre-digital history, each of which is presented briefly in this chapter. Blog
and written status updates are descendents of diaries, memoirs, commonplace books and autobiographies. Selfies are descendants of visual artists’ self-portraits, and the quantitative modes of lifelogs, personal maps, productivity records and activity trackers are descendants of genres such as accounting, habit tracking and to-do lists. In today’s digital culture, the three modes are intertwined. Digital self-representation is conversational and allows new voices to be heard. However, society disciplines digital self- representations such as selfies and blogs through ridicule and pathologising
Jill walker Rettberg - Personal Name
1st Edtion
9781137476661
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Seeing Ourselves Through Technology
Management
English
Palgrave Macmillan
2003
USA
1-112
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