Rettberg, Jill Walker,

Seeing ourselves through technology : how we use selfies, blogs and wearable devices to see and shape ourselves / Jill Walker Rettberg. - viii, 101 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm. - Palgrave pivot . - Palgrave pivot .

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1137476648 (hardback) 9781137476647 (hardback)


Identity (Psychology)
Blogs.
Digital media--Philosophy.

BF697 / .R48 2014

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