The Virtual Self And The New Trend Of Self-Tracking

Episode #305 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

Now, with the ubiquity of smartphones and mobile connectedness, it has never been easier to share with the world our each and every move (look no further than Facebook‘s one billion dollar acquisition of Instagram). And we’re publishing our lives. All of the time – in text, images, audio and video – for the world to see. In fact, it’s happening more and more with each and every passing day. Why are we doing all of this self-tracking? It’s a topic that has fascinated Nora Young for a long while. The founding host and producer of CBC‘s Definitely Not The Opera and the current host of Spark (a radio show and podcast about the intersection of technology and culture – and it’s one of my personal favorites) spent this past year digging deeper into self-tracking and what this means about our society and who we are. The culmination of her work is the recently published book, The Virtual Self – How Our Digital Lives Are Altering the World Around Us. Over the years, I’ve had the pleasure of being a guest on Spark on multiple occasions, so it was a lot of fun to turn the tables and interview Nora. Enjoy the conversation…

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