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

By Jill Walker Rettberg. 2014

379 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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.

Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Cultural Studies, Human-Computer Interaction

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2. Tama Leaver

In Cultural Studies

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2. Tama Leaver

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2. Tama Leaver

Citations in the corpus

• Instagrammatics and digital methods: studying visual social media, from selfies and GIFs to memes and emoji (2016, background): “Some prominent forms of visual social media have been studied as particular practices and cultures – see, for instance, the richly-detailed and growing literature on sel fi es (Frosh, 2015; Marwick, 2015; Senft & Baym, 2015; Tiidenberg & Gomez Cruz, 2015; Walker Rettberg, 2014; Wendt, 2014).”
• "Girls are addicted to likes so they post semi-naked selfies": Peer mediation, normativity and the construction of identity online (2015, background): “The study of selfies has also pointed to their being tools for selfimprovement and self-knowledge (Rettberg, 2014) as well as means of expressing resistant discourses (Bosch, 2011; Mazzarella, 2010).”
• Intimate Surveillance: Normalizing Parental Monitoring and Mediation of Infants Online (2017, background): “Yet as Jill Rettberg has warned, apps which document and capture moments, interactions, or other elements of infancy in their design can also limit the ways in which infancy is understood, conceptualized, narrated, and recorded (Rettberg, 2014).”