In the podcast I discuss with Professor Lee Humphries of Cornell University the themes and insights explored in her book: The Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life. Drawing on a number of historical precursors from diaries to Kodak photography, Lee Humphries argues the case for approaching the practices of social media production of self as something less about narcissism and more about communication between ourselves and others through the ordinary things in life.
https://communication.cals.cornell.edu/people/lee-humphreys/
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/qualified-self
