Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy
Project 3: Screen Self Portrait
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» 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
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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