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Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait


Week 11

M 28-Mar In­tro: Unit 3 “Ex­pe­ri­ence Par­a­digm” — Overview Video

  • 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”
     
    → quotes doc be­low

  • Fo­cus (unit theme): rep­re­sent­ing ex­pe­ri­ence & iden­tity — aes­thetic or quan­ti­ta­tive…
     
    → ideas from Blog En­try 3 + Wieseltier­jan ar­ti­cle + Ul­mer videos (be­fore break)
     
    * “Ap­pa­ra­tus The­ory” chart: Oral­ity | Lit­er­acy | Elec­tracy
     



W 30-Mar hy­brid work: on­line dis­cus­sion be­low



F 01-Apr Quan­ti­fied Dig­i­tal Iden­tity

  • read & dis­cuss: Ret­tberg Chap­ter 5, “Quan­ti­fied Selves”
    — fo­cus: “Quan­ti­fied self-representation” (dis­tinct an­gle of medi­ated expe­ri­ence & dig­i­tal iden­tity)
    » key top­ics: “dataism,” tech-cultural fil­ters, capta, “ma­chine vi­sion”; “dig­i­tal traces” & curated/logged iden­tity
    → quotes doc be­low
     
  • also watch Idea Chan­nel: “How Pow­er­ful are Algo­rithms?” (2014)
     
  • Ac­tiv­ity: start “snap­shot of Ma­chine Vi­sion” (data­base iden­ti­ties) for blog en­try
     
    » look­ing ahead: Exer­cise 4 and Project 3
    → Tu­to­r­ial Video for Ex­er­cise (watch by/on Mon­day)



» Blog En­try 4: ma­chine vi­sion of “me” — Data­Self Snap­shot 

    — start dur­ing class; due Sat­ur­day
  • use 2 concepts/terms, at least one quote/passage from chap­ters; plus 2 me­dia in­stances (min­i­mum), em­bed­ded in en­try
  • com­pose snap­shot “data por­trait” of [your] dig­i­tal traces/footprints, quan­ti­fied iden­tity collected/measured across net­works & data­bases (24−48 hours)
    — use me­dia not as exam­ple (vi­sual) but to com­pose this snap­shot por­trait