Reading and journaling 2: Faces
- Due Jan 28, 2016 by 10am
- Points None
To prepare for Class 2: Faces: From Biometrics to Facial Recognition and Selfies (28 Jan), please read:
Rettberg, Jill Walker. 2014. Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs, and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves. Palgrave Macmillan. Chapters 1, 2 and 3. (45 pages)
This book can be bought in print but it is also available as an open access digital book. If you like using a Kindle you can download it for free from Amazon (this allows you to make highlights and copy them from Amazon Links to an external site. if you like), or you can download it as an ePub or PDF Links to an external site..
Agamben, Giorgio. 2011. "Identity without the Person." In Nudities. Stanford: Meridian. (will be available for purchase at http://litteraturkiosken.uib.no)
Manovich, Lev, and Alise Tifentale. “Selfiecity: Exploring Photography And Self-Fashioning In Social Media.” In Postdigital Aesthetics: Art, Computation and Design, edited by David Berry and Michael Dieter. Basingbroke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pages 109-122. (will be available for purchase at http://litteraturkiosken.uib.no)
Burns, Anne. “Self(ie)-Discipline: Social Regulation as Enacted Through the Discussion of Photographic Practice.” International Journal of Communication 9 (May 15, 2015): 1716–33. http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/3138 Links to an external site. (17 pages)
Frosh, Paul. 2015. “The Gestural Image: The Selfie, Photography Theory, and Kinesthetic Sociability.” International Journal of Communication 9, pages 1607–1628. http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/3146 Links to an external site. (21 pages)
Estimated reading time this week: 10-12 hours.
Examples of self-portraits through history:
Find a heavily illustrated book about self-portraits in art history and/or photography at the library and spend some time leafing through it, looking at the images.
Writing journal prompt:
What differences, if any, do you see between pre-digital self-portraits and selfies? What similarities?
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Writing habits
Has developed sustainable and productive writing habits and an awareness of what works well for him or her. Is able to manage a research and writing project with a balance of individual work and group interaction and feedback. Can give and receive constructive feedback on writing. Can assess feedback from others and integrate relevant feedback into own writing. Is prepared to work on MA thesis.
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Research skills
Can identify a productive research question, find relevant sources, use correct citation techniques and compile a bibliography, can write an academic research paper.
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History of visual technologies
Students will be able to present and discuss the technological and cultural history of ways of seeing the world, for example by being aware of key technological changes in visual technology, and by being able to compare or contrast contemporary technology to historical antecedents.
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