The Qualified Self
Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life
$44.29
- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
13 April 2018
Summary
How 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-di…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262538954 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262538954 |
| Author: | Lee Humphreys |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 13 April 2018 |
| Weight: | 316g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 14mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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Critics Review
I 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 SocietyAbout The Author
Lee Humphreys
Lee Humphreys is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University.
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