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

by Jill Walker Rettberg

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

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Book Description

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.

This open book is licensed under a Creative Commons License (CC BY). You can download Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves ebook for free in PDF format (1.4 MB).

Book Details

Title
Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Published
2014
Pages
110
Edition
1
Language
English
ISBN13
9781349995394
ISBN10
1349995398
ISBN13 Digital
9781137476661
ISBN10 Digital
1137476664
PDF Size
1.4 MB
License
CC BY

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