Week 7- Selfies
Walker- Rettberg :
Author Walker-Rettberg
Title Seeing Ourselves Through Technology
Self representation:visual, written, quantitative
Concepts and
Filter
terms
micro-celebrity
3 ways of self representation: written (from diaries- now blogs): visual
(from portraits-now photos/selfies), quantitative (from accounting/to-do
lists- now spreadsheets). Selfies and photos as tools for self-
improvement and self-knowledge; digitalisation bought self
Main ideas representation to the public sphere. Filters as an analytical term to
understand how our self-expression is removed, filtered out or altered.
The visual form has recently become the prevalent one. Self-
representation with digital technologies is also self-documentation and a
tool of communication.
Self representation has always been part of our culture but now it’s
Author’s being ridiculised and phatologised especially in certain social groups
position (eg young women)
Walker- Rettberg :
Author Walker-Rettberg
Title Seeing Ourselves Through Technology
Self representation:visual, written, quantitative
Concepts and
Filter
terms
micro-celebrity
3 ways of self representation: written (from diaries- now blogs): visual
(from portraits-now photos/selfies), quantitative (from accounting/to-do
lists- now spreadsheets). Selfies and photos as tools for self-
improvement and self-knowledge; digitalisation bought self
Main ideas representation to the public sphere. Filters as an analytical term to
understand how our self-expression is removed, filtered out or altered.
The visual form has recently become the prevalent one. Self-
representation with digital technologies is also self-documentation and a
tool of communication.
Self representation has always been part of our culture but now it’s
Author’s being ridiculised and phatologised especially in certain social groups
position (eg young women)
