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

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rettberg, Jill Walker (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Subjects:
Cultural and Media Studies.
Children's Literature.
Industries.
Media Studies.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Social Sciences, general.
Children's literature.
Communication.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Social sciences.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 101 pages)
ISBN:9781137476661
DOI:10.1057/9781137476661
Access:Open Access