Main terms/Main ideas: Quantitative: In this case it’s recording to your habits and actions. It is relating to, measuring, or measured by the quantity of something rather then the quality of it. Autopathography: an autobiography dealing with primarily with the influence of a disease, disability, or a psychological disorder in the authors life. Pathologising: regard or treat(someone or something) as psychologically abnormal or unhealthy.
Summary: In Chapter 1 the author Jill Walker mainly goes over the history of self representation. She introduces written, visual, and quantitative forms of self-representation. Back in the day people used written self-representation when they wrote in diaries, had other people write there stories or they wrote them themselves if they could write. Writing down anything is a form of written self-representation. Some examples back then are writing a book, dairies, and others. Some examples for the present are blogging, twitter, and Facebook. Really any type of social media. With blogging people write down what’s on there mind or what is interesting to them or what my be interesting to others. For Facebook and Twitter those are for the things going on in your immediate area. Like posting the weather, drama, what they are having to eat, or if something happened to them good or bad. The second form of self-representation is visual. For visual art falls in this category, so like portraits, drawing, paintings, and sculptures. those are all the past examples of self-representations. For the present forms are selfies, pictures and more. The last form is Quantitative. In the past was done according to Benjamin Franklin’s way where you keep track of what you are doing. Some examples of those could be the Apple watch and the Fitbit. Like what Benjamin said with keeping track of thing the Fitbit keeps track of your footsteps, heartrate and more.
Commentary: I like how the author explains how the past is different from the present with these three examples of self-presentation. He helps us realize that with the interdiction of technology we don’t use the ways that the people in the past did like using selfies and pictures over painting and sculptures. Also I like that the author included Benjamin Frankland into the article and what he said to keep track of what you do. The author did good and picking the Fitbit as the example for keeping track of things. The Fitbit keeps track of many things for use like our foot steps, heart rate and etc.
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