Summary:
Author jill walker for the book ‘seeing ourselves through technology’ explains the three modes for self representation in digital media are written, visuals, quantitative. She explained very well about how it was diaries and such to blogs are written self represtation in digital media today. Another thing Jill talks about how we use social media to build a self portrait of ourselves from apps like snap, instagram, Facebook etc. there an example in the beginning of parmigiaino used oil pastels of himself and as technology grows we grew into it, making it easier for us to do so. She starts the books by giving us a way of things we’re done back in the day to now how things changes. Writing about your self was expensive as Jill explains in chapter one but as time goes by talking about/ writing about yourself became more common and less expensive. Jill mentions that it was very common for people to paint pictures of themselves instead of write. Mostly because people couldn’t read or write and western traditions of writing was used for spiritual and religious writing. Then translated to diaries and also autobiographies which is the start. Visual self is the image one has of them self. Predate self portrait would be painting to digitally caners and today we use Instagram and other apps off our ver phones making it easier. The last section she hasn’t was quantitative which is records in number like height, weight, death and birth records etc. With these three being in our culture dating back to ages now using images to do making it easier..
Main ideas and terms
• There are three distinct forms of self-representation in digital media: visual, written, and quantitative
• Text to images was a huge innovation and made it easier
• Diaries and autobiographies turned into blogs
• Self representation been in cultures throughout history and still today
• Western diaries starting for religious and spiritual
• Self portrait went from full to weak or dull representation or view
• Recording person data into blog can sometimes be interferes with topic driven
• We record ourselves in numbers, called quantitative
• Digital presentation gives us power to control audiences viewers
• We reflect ourselves using social media
Making connections
I can see where the authors is coming from. I used to have a spam account with only couple people and that was really my rant page prior to that I had a main page for the public view but my spam was my private life of my problems and daily issues. Today people have multiple accounts to hide certain things making into some what blog. Diaries have turned into private’s accounts as technology becomes involved into our lives. For me I also have a private Twitter account called switter(I didn’t make it so). Lately I’ve haven’t been posting and deleted all my accounts because they were a waste of time and I only had it for Brief time. For other people using pictures and videos to express how they feel with a caption was it but it wasn’t for me plus I wasn’t even doing that I was only following certain pages to get the latest gossip. When I realized that it was a waste time to me I had wasted months of time of some stupid thing. But for other it has helped them and that’s great.
yslamblog 