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

   This book explores self-representations in three modes: written, visual and quantitative, and looks
   at how these modes of self-representation are used in a digital age. The histories of written and
   visual self-representations are well known through lineages of autobiographies, diaries, memoirs
   and self-portraits, and have clear descendents in blogs and social media sites like Instagram,
   Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. Quantitative self-representations also have a long history but have
   been less studied as an aesthetic and rhetorical genre. With digital media, the personal tracking of weather, travels, habits and moods is commodified through activity trackers, wearable devices
   and apps for lifelogging and productivity.
   The book, which will be published as a peer-reviewed, open access and print-on-demand book in
   the Palgrave Pivot imprint in October 2014, includes chapters on selfies, on the use of technological and cultural filters, on real-time diaries and on surveillance. For the purpose of this
   workshop, the presentation will focus on how we can understand what José van Dijck calls
   

   Alvaro Seica - 29.08.2014 - 10:00