The document discusses how people use technology and social media to curate their self-image and share their lives with others. It explores how individuals edit themselves online to control how they are perceived. Additionally, it examines how constant connection through devices allows people to maintain superficial intimacy from a distance while sacrificing real conversation. This ambient awareness provides a sense of closeness but prevents truly engaging interactions and relationships.

1. By Masha Nazina
How We Document
Our Lives

2. “Self image is
important, how
we define
ourselves, and
present for
others to see”
Erikson, Christine. “The Social Psychology of the Selfie.” Mashable.
MLA, February 15 2013. Web. 1 June 2016. http://mashable.com/
2013/02/15/social-media-and-the-selfie/#2hGZQd5acZqN

3. “We rely on other’s
judgments and
approval to develop
our social self”
Erikson, Christine. “The Social Psychology of the Selfie.” Mashable.
MLA, February 15 2013. Web. 1 June 2016. http://mashable.com/
2013/02/15/social-media-and-the-selfie/#2hGZQd5acZqN

4. “I am what I share.”
Turkle, Sherry. “The Documented Life.” New York Times. MLA, December 15 2013. Web. June 1 2016. http://
www.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/opinion/the-documented-life.html

5. “We are becoming a ‘multi-life digital
culture’ that is not any more about what
I am but more about what I share.”
Bloemarts, Sannne. “I am, What I Share! Internet Addiction.” Coetail. MLA, unknown date. Web.
June 2 2016. http://www.coetail.com/educationjourney/2013/09/03/i-am-what-i-share-internet-
addiction/

6. “Technology doesn’t just do
things for us. It does things to
us, changing not just what we
do but who we are.”
Turkle, Sherry. “The Documented Life.” New York Times. MLA, December 15 2013. Web, June 2
2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/opinion/the-documented-life.html

7. “Emails, profiles online
allow us to edit
ourselves, delete things
accordingly to who we
want to be.”
Turkle, Sherry. “The Flight From Conversation.” New York Times. MLA. April 21 2012. Web, June 2 2016. http://
www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html

8. People take
photos of
what they eat
to reveal
themselves to
others.
It gives them
a sense of
belonging in
a community,
because of
the positive
feedback.
Murphy, Kate. “First Camera,
Then Fork.” New York Times.
MLA. April 6 2010. Web, June
2 2016. http://
www.nytimes.com/
2010/04/07/dining/
07camera.html

9. “I get more comments
on my food pictures
than anything else.”
Murphy, Kate. “First Camera, Then Fork.” New York Times. MLA.
April 6 2010. Web, June 2 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/
2010/04/07/dining/07camera.html

10. “We are living in a world where we are constantly
communicating. And yet, we have sacrificed
conversation for mere connection.”

11. “We are creating ambient intimacies…
Unfocused closeness that we maintain by
following our friends every day.”

12. “Ambient
awareness is much
like being physically
near someone and
picking up on their
mood through the
little things they do.”
Thompson, Clive. “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy.” New York Times. MLA, september 5 2008. Web. June 2 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/magazine/
07awareness-t.html

13. “Now, keeping up
with people non-
stop on social media
is mundane, not a
novelty.”
Chayka, Kyle. “How Ambient Intimacy Became so Overwhelming.” Pacific Standard
Magazine. MLA, Jan 2 2016. Web. June 2 2016. https://psmag.com/how-ambient-
intimacy-became-so-overwhelming-3a9e9190af14#.jlbemyc0k

14. “We interrupt
conversations
to document
and take
selfies.”
Turkle, Sherry. “The Documented Life.” New York Times. MLA, December 15 2013. Web. June 1 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/
opinion/the-documented-life.html

15. “The crutch of social media
that removes us from the real
world is detrimental to our
relationships.”
White, Thomas. “Why Social Media Isn’t Social.”
Huffington Post. MLA, November 2 2013. Web, June 2
2016. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thomas-white/
why-social-media-isnt-social_b_3858576.html

16. Soltan, Liz. “Digital Disraction to the Detriment of In-Person
Relationships.” Digital Responsibility. MLA, unknown date. Web.
June 2, 2016. http://www.digitalresponsibility.org/digital-distraction-
to-the-detriment-of-in-person-relationships/

17. “Our flight from conversation can mean
diminished chances to learn skills of self-
reflection.”
Turkle, Sherry. “The Flight From Conversation.” New York Times. MLA.
April 21 2012. Web, June 2 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/
2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html

18. “We can’t get enough of one
another if we can use
technology to keep each other
at distances we can control: not
too close, not too far, just right.”

19. “Multi-
communicating
can be thought
of as a special
form of
multitasking that
is possible only
because humans
can think more
rapidly than they
can speak or
type.”
Rensch, Lamar. Turner, Jeanine. Tinsley, Chatherine. “Multicommunicating: a
practice whose time has come?” Georgetown. MLA, 2006. Web. June 2 2016.
http://www18.georgetown.edu/data/people/tinsleyc/publication-28691.pdf

20. Multi communicating is worse
than multitasking, because you
are juggling people, not tasks.

21. The modern power of
technology and constant
connection to social
media has us
accustomed to being
alone together, in our
own self-reflective worlds.

22. Sources
¡ All photographs taken by Masha Nazina
¡ Erikson, Christine. “The Social Psychology of the Selfie.” Mashable. MLA, February 15 2013. Web. 1 June 2016.
http://mashable.com/2013/02/15/social-media-and-the-selfie/#2hGZQd5acZqN
¡ Turkle, Sherry. “The Documented Life.” New York Times. MLA, December 15 2013. Web. June 1 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/
2013/12/16/opinion/the-documented-life.html
¡ Bloemarts, Sannne. “I am, What I Share! Internet Addiction.” Coetail. MLA, unknown date. Web. June 2 2016.
http://www.coetail.com/educationjourney/2013/09/03/i-am-what-i-share-internet-addiction/
¡ Turkle, Sherry. “The Flight From Conversation.” New York Times. MLA. April 21 2012. Web, June 2 2016.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html
¡ Murphy, Kate. “First Camera, Then Fork.” New York Times. MLA. April 6 2010. Web, June 2 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/
2010/04/07/dining/07camera.html
¡ Matrix, Sidney. Lecture on Module 02. May 9 2016. https://vimeo.com/165744362
¡ Thompson, Clive. “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy.” New York Times. MLA, september 5 2008. Web. June 2 2016. http://
www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/magazine/07awareness-t.html
¡ Chayka, Kyle. “How Ambient Intimacy Became so Overwhelming.” Pacific Standard Magazine. MLA, Jan 2 2016. Web. June 2
2016. https://psmag.com/how-ambient-intimacy-became-so-overwhelming-3a9e9190af14#.jlbemyc0k
¡ White, Thomas. “Why Social Media Isn’t Social.” Huffington Post. MLA, November 2 2013. Web, June 2 2016.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thomas-white/why-social-media-isnt-social_b_3858576.html
¡ Soltan, Liz. “Digital Disraction to the Detriment of In-Person Relationships.” Digital Responsibility. MLA, unknown date. Web. June
2, 2016. http://www.digitalresponsibility.org/digital-distraction-to-the-detriment-of-in-person-relationships/
¡ Rensch, Lamar. Turner, Jeanine. Tinsley, Chatherine. “Multicommunicating: a practice whose time has come?” Georgetown.
MLA, 2006. Web. June 2 2016. http://www18.georgetown.edu/data/people/tinsleyc/publication-28691.pdf
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phone-needs-me/article14706158/