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The qualified self : social media and the accounting of everyday life / Lee Humphreys

Humphreys, Lee [Verfasser]

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2019

Oxford : Oxford University Press

1 Online-Ressource : Illustrations (black and white).

MIT Press scholarship online

Previously issued in print: 2018

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-262-34625-2 ; 978-0-26-203785-3

AP 16250 LC 13000 MR 6600 MS 7965

 

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Social critiques argue that social media have made us narcissistic, that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube are all vehicles for me-promotion. In this book, 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.