“Seeing Ourselves Through Technology” Chapter 3 Notes

Chapter 3 Serial Selfies: Key Terms and Main Ideas 

•  Cumulative Self-presentation: digital self-presentation and self-reflection is cumulative rather presented as a definitive whole.  
•  Self-Representation: a filter built into our software and machines, they are also influenced by culture filters 
• The Lapse Video: video of photos Agree Lee uploaded and had taken of herself every day for three years. 

• Automatic portraits: fully automatic photo booths were early as the 1890s (Pellicer 2010, 16). – self- portraits were a perfect surrealist method and many self-portraits taken by surrealists having been preserved. – digital self-representation of the diary written bit by bit over period 
• Selfie time lapse camera and pictures: that will remind you to take your daily photo, help you line up your camera, so your face is positioned the same in each image and automatically generate a video of your daily selfie 

         Chapter 3 Serial Selfies: Commentary 

Chapter 3 was my favorite and was very accurate in my opinion. Jill Walker Rettberg talks about serial and cumulative, it’s about looking at an individual post, or only sells us part cool to read only to tell us part of the story. Tinger, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat it’s easy to make yourself look like something you’re not. People love using filters and that’s half the story, and that brings in the self-representation and the self- presentation argument about which means what to someone. They now a days hide behind filters and other social media, like to present an image. People aren’t confident in their selves that’s why they need assurance form the rest of the world. I know a lot of people who are just existing on social media and not lengthy may act like everything is ok, but their life is usually a mess. 

Chapter 3 Serial Selfies: Making Connections 

In the text “Seeing Through Technology”, chapter 3 talks about how social media genres are cumulative and serial. She said looking at the individual post, tweet, status update or selfie tells us only part of the history. I agree with her when she said (paraphrasing) people now a days hide behind filters and other social media, like to present an image. The author talks about Self-Representation, a filter built into our software and machines, they are also influenced by culture filters. Now a days in 2019 I feel this is at an all-time high and a lot of people hide real life problems behind filters and social media. The author also talks about The Lapse Video. A video of photos Agree Lee uploaded and had taken of herself every day for three years. This is still used today on YouTube and iPhones have a special feature that also can make time lapse videos. 

CITE: Jill Walker Rettberg (2014). Seeing Ourselves Through Technology. 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN