[Purple-Blurb] Jill Walker Rettberg, Seeing Ourselves Through Technology, Monday 5:30pm in 14E-310

[Nick Montfort]

Dear Purple Blurbers, I hope you can join us for the last presentation of the 
semester:

MIT, room 14E-310

Monday 5/5, 5:30pm

  Jill Walker Rettberg

“Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies,
  Blogs and Wearable Devices to Understand Ourselves”

Free and open to the public, no reservation required

It is sure to be an insightful discussion by a pioneering scholar of blogs and 
digital media production about the self -- one who was also (at least) among 
the first bloggers in her country.

This Monday (2014-05-05) the Purple Blurb series of Spring 2014 presentations 
will conclude with a talk by Jill Walker Rettberg on a pervasive but still not 
well-understood phenomenon, the types of digital writing, tracking, 
photography, and media production of other sorts that people do about 
themselves. Her examples will be drawn from her own work as well as from 
photobooths, older self-portraits, and entries from others’ diaries.

Jill Walker Rettberg is Professor of Digital Culture at the University of 
Bergen in Norway. Her research centers on how we tell stories online, and she 
has published on electronic literature, digital art, blogging, games and 
selfies. She has written a research blog, jilltxt.net, since October 2000, and 
co-wrote the first academic paper on blogs in 2002. Her book Blogging was 
published in a second edition in 2014. In 2008 she co-edited an anthology of 
scholarly articles on World of Warcraft. Jill is currently writing a book on 
technologically mediated self-representations, from blogs and selfies to 
automated diaries and visualisations of data from wearable devices.

More about Purple Blurb:

http://trope-tank.mit.edu/purple_blurb/

  -Nick