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OverviewHow sharing the mundane details of daily life did not start with Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube but with pocket diaries, photo albums, and baby books.Social critiques argue that social media have made us narcissistic, that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube are all vehicles for me-promotion. In The Qualified Self, Lee Humphreys offers a different view. She shows that sharing the mundane details of our lives-what we ate for lunch, where we went on vacation, who dropped in for a visit-didn't begin with mobile devices and social media. People have used media to catalog and share their lives for several centuries. Pocket diaries, photo albums, and baby books are the predigital precursors of today's digital and mobile platforms for posting text and images. The ability to take selfies has not turned us into needy narcissists; it's part of a longer story about how people account for everyday life. Humphreys refers to diaries in which eighteenth-century daily life is documented with the brevity and precision of a tweet, and cites a nineteenth-century travel diary in which a young woman complains that her breakfast didn't agree with her. Diaries, Humphreys explains, were often written to be shared with family and friends. Pocket diaries were as mobile as smartphones, allowing the diarist to record life in real time. Humphreys calls this chronicling, in both digital and nondigital forms, media accounting. The sense of self that emerges from media accounting is not the purely statistics-driven ""quantified self,"" but the more well-rounded qualified self. We come to understand ourselves in a new way through the representations of ourselves that we create to be consumed. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lee Humphreys (Assistant Professor, Cornell University)Publisher: MIT Press Ltd Imprint: MIT Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm ISBN: 9780262538954ISBN 10: 0262538954 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 13 April 2018 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsI highly recommend Humphreys' book to whomever wants to deepen their understanding of how and why people document, share, and re-engage with their own media traces. -Information, Communication and Society Author InformationLee Humphreys is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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