MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

Artificial Authenticity? When Presentation Becomes Personality

Reviewing Tara Isabella Burton’s ‘Self Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians’

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Joel J Miller
Jul 17, 2023
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When future historians try capturing what made our era unique, they’ll undoubtedly refer to the summertime photo of a little blonde dog and a woman’s flipflop-shod foot. They’ll also refer to the person who took the photo, Kevin Systrom. It was the first photo shared on the app he built with colleague Mike Krieger: Instagram.

Photo by Kevin Systrom, July…
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