Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait

» reminder: Optional Exer­cise (extra credit) — Instruc­tions Page

 
Week 11

M 11/02   Dis­cuss: Ret­tberg, See­ing Our­selves Through Tech­nol­ogy: How We Use Self­ies, Blogs and Wear­able Devices to See and Shape Our­selves (2014) eBook

Chap­ter 1 “Writ­ten, Visual and Quan­ti­ta­tive Self-Representations”
& Chap­ter 2 “Fil­tered Reality”

 
 
W 11/04   hybrid work :

• Dis­cuss Ret­tberg Chap­ter 5, “Quan­ti­fied Selves”
  — focus: “Quan­ti­fied self-representation” (dis­tinct image/angle of medi­ated expe­ri­ence & dig­i­tal identity)
  → key top­ics: “dataism,” tech-cultural fil­ters, “machine vision”; “dig­i­tal traces” & curated/logged identity
   
• par­tic­i­pa­tion: Com­ment & Reply
  Sec­tion 015  |  Sec­tion 021
  (pri­vate dis­cus­sions — pass­word pro­tected)

 
 
F 11/06   Ret­tberg Chap­ter 6, “Pri­vacy and Sur­veil­lance” (and Chap­ter 5)

• and watch Idea Chan­nel: “How Pow­er­ful are Algo­rithms?” (2014)
   
• focus/looking ahead: Exer­cise 4 and Project 3

 
 
» Blog Entry 4: machine vision of “me” 

— start dur­ing class (due Fri PM)
• use 2 quotes/passages (from chap­ters) + 2 media instances (min­i­mum)
• com­pose “data por­trait” of [your] dig­i­tal traces/footprints, quan­ti­fied iden­tity collected/measured across databases
  — use media not as exam­ple (visual) but to cre­ate this aggre­gate portrait