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Many of the ways we use mobile and social media today have longstanding precedents in historical media like diaries, scrapbooks, and home movies. What we think of as the social media revolution is part of a much longer story about the use of media for connecting people through the documenting and sharing of everyday life. The qualified self explores the ways we come to understand ourselves, our social connections, and the world around us through the media traces we create. Placing mobile and social media into a longer historical context helps to reveal what is really new about these contemporary communication technologies, what future services might learn from historical communication practices, and what fundamental aspects of the human experience emerge through a variety of media platforms.

 

Lee Humphreys is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. She is interested in the social uses and perceived effects of communication technology. Her research has explored mobile phone use in public spaces and emerging norms on mobile social networks both in the US and in Indonesia. Using qualitative field methods, she focuses on how people integrate communication technology in their everyday lives in order to facilitate identity management and social interaction. Her work also explores how people perceive privacy and surveillance issues around mobile social media. Her research also seeks to historicize new media. She teaches New Media & Society, Mobile Communication in Public Life, Qualitative Research Methods and the Sociology of Communication. She received her BS in Communication from Cornell University and her MA and PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

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