Is technology making us more introverted and less social? Are selfies making us narcissistic? Or are we entering into a new genre of social behavior, speech and aesthetic.

1. Web of Introverts
Mathias Klang @klangable

2. Cave painting

3. The first to
write her name

4. Augustine’s Confessions 397bc

5. Blogger 1999Google 1999
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6. Devices
Connections
Platforms

7. Technopessimist tradition

8. Eye contact while texting & Multitasking

9. The illusion of companionship without the
demands of friendship Sherry Turkle

10. Being alone feels like a problem that needs to
be solved Sherry Turkle

11. I share therefore I am
Sherry Turkle

12. If we don’t teach our children to be alone, they
will only know how to be lonely Sherry Turkle

13. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is
normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the
way the world works. Anything that’s invented
between when you’re fifteen and thirty­five is new and
exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a
career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty­five is
against the natural order of things.
Douglas Adams, Salmon of Doubt

14. Determinism or
Free Will

15. My colleagues hand…

17. Information Oversharing

22. Look at this Instagram (Nickelback Parody)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn-dD-QKYN4

23. Look Up Gary Turk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7dLU6fk9QY

24. Look Down (Look Up Parody) JianHao Tan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jhd3HXcaEk

25. The Selfie

26. Was the selfie
inevitable?

32. Selfies
the most infamous in 90 seconds

33. “Sasha and Malia Obama take a selfie at dad Barack Obama's
Presidential Inaugural Parade on January 21, 2013”

35. The earliest known
photographic self-
portrait was taken
by Robert Cornelius
in 1839

36. First teenage selfie?
Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna at the age of 13 was one of
the first teenagers to take her own picture using a mirror to send to a
friend in 1914. In the letter that accompanied the photograph, she
wrote, "I took this picture of myself looking at the mirror. It was very
hard as my hands were trembling."

37. Ilse Bing Self Portrait with Leica 1931

38. First “selfie” 2002
“Um, drunk at a mates 21st, I tripped over and landed lip first (with front
teeth coming a very close second) on a set of steps. I had a hole about 1
cm long right through my bottom lip. And sorry about the focus, it was a
selfie.” Nathan Hope (13 September 2002)

39. Why these images?

40. What cannot be posted?

41. Belfie

43. Funeral Selfies

44. We’re down with
the kids!

45. Selfie stick

46. Selfie drone

47. Pictures of hipsters taking pictures of food

48. Mathias Klang
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