Jill Walker Rettberg es Profesora de Cultura Digital en la Universidad de Bergen. Su trabajo profundiza en cómo la tecnología moldea nuestra autopercepción y identidad. Explora las formas en que las herramientas digitales y las plataformas en línea influyen en nuestra cultura y cómo nos expresamos a través de ellas. Sus profundas ideas sobre la intersección de la tecnología y la experiencia humana ofrecen a los lectores una nueva perspectiva sobre la era digital.
This book is open access under a CC BY license. Selfies, blogs and lifelogging
devices help us understand ourselves, building on long histories of written,
visual and quantitative modes of self-representations. This book uses examples
to explore the balance between using technology to see ourselves and allowing
our machines to tell us who we are.
Authored by a scholar-blogger, this engaging book is packed with examples that
show how blogging and related genres are changing media and communication. It
gives definitions and explains how blogs work, shows how blogs relate to the
historical development of publishing and communication and looks at the ways
blogs structure social networks.
It wasn't difficult to research this book. Poor management is sadly so very
common. Almost everyone has a story about a mad bad boss they once worked for.
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What will new machine vision technologies like facial recognition, deepfakes and augmented reality mean for us as individuals and as a society? How will these new extensions of human vision change our perception of the world? What will we not see? In this illuminating book, Jill Walker Rettberg draws on art, video games and science fiction as well as real-world examples to explore how machine vision shapes our world. This book provides an accessible overview of the history and contemporary uses of machine vision technologies and uses contemporary critical theory to unpack how technologies like smart surveillance cameras and TikTok filters shape our interactions with technology and each other. By analysing specific fictional and real-world situations involving machine vision technologies, this book shows how technologies can have very different impacts in different cultural settings. The combination of aesthetic analysis with ethnographic and critical media studies approaches makes Machine Vision an engaging and eye-opening read for students and scholars of digital media studies, science and technology studies, visual studies, digital art and science fiction, as well as for readers who want to create or evaluate new machine vision technologies.