{"id":3693,"date":"2014-05-03T14:04:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T18:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2014-08-06T16:47:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T20:47:21","slug":"jill-walker-rettberg-this-mondays-purple-blurb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2014\/05\/jill-walker-rettberg-this-mondays-purple-blurb\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Walker Rettberg, this Monday&#8217;s Purple Blurb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trope-tank.mit.edu\/purple_blurb\/\">Purple Blurb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIT, room 14E-310<\/p>\n<p>Monday 5\/5, 5:30pm<\/p>\n<p>Free and open to the public, no reservation required<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/jilltxt.net\/\">Jill Walker Rettberg<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"margin-left:20px; margin-right:20px\">&#8220;Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to Understand Ourselves&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/trope-tank.mit.edu\/purple_blurb\/images\/jill_rettberg.jpeg\" alt=\"Jill Walker Rettberg\" style=\"float:right; margin-left:8px; margin-bottom:8px\" \/>This Monday (2014-05-05) the Purple Blurb series of Spring 2014 presentations will conclude with a talk by Jill Walker Rettberg on a pervasive but still not well-understood phenomenon, the types of digital writing, tracking, photography, and media production of other sorts that people do about themselves. Her examples will be drawn from her own work as well as from photobooths, older self-portraits, and entries from others\u2019 diaries.<\/p>\n<p>Jill Walker Rettberg is Professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway. Her research centers on how we tell stories online, and she has published on electronic literature, digital art, blogging, games and selfies. She has written a research blog, jilltxt.net, since October 2000, and co-wrote the first academic paper on blogs in 2002. Her book _Blogging_ was published in a second edition in 2014. In 2008 she co-edited an anthology of scholarly articles on _World of Warcraft._ Jill is currently writing a book on technologically mediated self-representations, from blogs and selfies to automated diaries and visualisations of data from wearable devices.<\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/trope-tank.mit.edu\/purple_blurb\/\">Purple Blurb<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purple Blurb MIT, room 14E-310 Monday 5\/5, 5:30pm Free and open to the public, no reservation required Jill Walker Rettberg &#8220;Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to Understand Ourselves&#8221; This Monday (2014-05-05) the Purple Blurb series of Spring 2014 presentations will conclude with a talk by Jill Walker Rettberg &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2014\/05\/jill-walker-rettberg-this-mondays-purple-blurb\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jill Walker Rettberg, this Monday&#8217;s Purple Blurb&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,17,24,36,152,160,22,42],"class_list":["post-3693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blogs","tag-digital","tag-gatherings","tag-mit","tag-photography","tag-selfies","tag-upcoming","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3693"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3699,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions\/3699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}