[Air-L] Jill Walker Rettberg talk on selfies in Aarhus, Nov 7

[Annette Markham]

Hi All,



If you’re near Aarhus, Denmark next Friday, Nov 7, come listen to Jill
Walker Rettberg  talk about her research and new book: Seeing Ourselves
Through Technology (Palgrave).



You can choose from two events:



1. Workshop/lunch meeting Friday, Nov 7, 11:00-13:00

Topic: Seeing Ourselves As Researchers Through Technology

Abstract: Jill Walker will give a broader introduction to her work, discuss
her topic and method of research in her new book and research in general,
including how this relates to the questions in Digital Humanities and how
she has used digital and social media.

Location: Nygaard Building # 5335, room 295

Check for and reserve available seats: Contact Lene Elsner: elsner at dac.au.dk






2. Open lecture, Friday, Nov 7, 14.00-16.00

Title: Seeing Ourselves Through Technology - How We Use Selfies, Blogs and
Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves

Abstract: In this presentation, Jill Walker Rettberg looks at
technologically mediated self-representations in a variety of genres, from
selfies, Facebook profiles, Tumblrs, automated diaries and the quantified
self movement with its many forms of self-tracking. These modes of
self-documentation are also "technologies of the self" in Foucault's sense:
techniques we use to shape and discipline ourselves, both individually and
as a society. Rettberg analyses today's vernacular self-documentation in
the context of the history and theory of visual self-portraits and textual
diaries, and as an important part of today's algorithmic culture,
critiquing and playing with the "dataism" inherent that culture.

Location: Store Auditorium, INCUBA, Aabogade Aarhus N



Jill Walker Rettberg is professor of digital culture at the University of
Bergen in Norway. Her new book "Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We
Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves" was
published by Palgrave in 2014, and her book "Blogging" was published in a
2nd edition by Polity Press in 2014. She has also co-edited an anthology of
critical writing on World of Warcraft (MIT Press 2008). In addition to work
on electronic literature and social media, her recent work has also made
use of digital methods to visualise network relationships in electronic
literature.



Jill Walker's new book is published as open access:
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137476661



Organizers: The Humans and IT research program, The Digital Arts Initiative
& The Literature Between Media research center

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Annette N. Markham, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept of Aesthetics & Communication, Aarhus University
Affiliate Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago
amarkham at gmail.com
http://markham.internetinquiry.org/
Twitter: annettemarkham