Selfie citizenship / Adi Kuntsman, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kuntsman, Adi, editor.

Series:

Palgrave pivot

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Digital techniques--Political aspects.

Photography.

Cell phones--Social aspects.

Cell phones.

Citizenship--Social aspects.

Citizenship.

Photography--Digital techniques.

Physical Description:

ix, 172 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Swizterland : Palgrave Macmillan, imprint publisded by Springer Nature, [2017]

Contents:

Selfie Citizenship; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Prologue; 1 Inject/ed: Self(ie) Determination; 2 Introduction: Whose Selfie Citizenship?; Note; References; Conversation I Acts of Selfie Citizenship; 3 Performing Citizenship: Freedom March Selfies by Pakistani Instagrammers; Freedom March; Selfies: A Citizen Right and a Dialogical Gesture; #azadimarch: Friends, Women and Family; Notes; References; 4 V-Day Selfies in Beijing: Media Events and User Practices as Micro-Acts of Citizenship; From Square to Screen; Major Events, Micro-Media

Media Practices as Micro-Acts of CitizenshipReferences; 5 Selfies for/of Nepal: Acts of Global Citizenship and Bearing Witness; Introduction; Repositioning the Selfie as a Political Act; Bearing Witness to Catastrophe in the Digital Age; Selfies for Nepal: Acts of the 'Good' Global Citizen; Selfies of Nepal: Acts of the 'Bad' Global Citizen; Conclusion: The Good, the Bad and the Selfie; References; 6 Youth's Civic Awareness Through Selfies: Fun Performances in the Logic of 'Connective Actions'; 'Connective Actions' in Favour of 'Social and Media' Citizenship

When Social and Media Citizenship Becomes 'Actualised' by Non-Profit OrganisationsConclusion; References; 7 The People: The #Selfie's Urform; References; Conversation II The Selfie Genre and Its New Adaptations; 8 Performative Intimacies and Political Celebritisation; Celebrity Politics on Instagram; Three Styles of Celebrity Performances; Concluding Remarks; Notes; References; 9 Vote for My Selfie: Politician Selfies as Charismatic Engagement; Media Climate in Singapore; Digital Presence; Strategic Selfies; Charismatic Engagement; Reactions; Vote for My Selfie; References

10 Biometric Citizens: Adapting Our Selfies to Machine VisionReferences; 11 Dronie Citizenship?; Genealogies; The Citizen Under the Drone; The Citizen with the Drone; A Case for Dronie Citizenship; Notes; References; Conversation III Selfies and the Politics of In/visibility; 12 Selfies, Self-Witnessing and the 'Out-of-Place' Digital Citizen; References; 13 Visual Afterlife: Posthumous Camera Phone Practices; Picture This: The Effect of Camera Phone Agency; Memorialised, Intimate Publics: A Case Study of Camera Phones During a Disaster; Conclusion: Localising Selfie Agency; References

14 Like a Stone in Your Stomach: Articulating the Unspeakable in Rape Victim-Survivors' Activist SelfiesOn the Affective Politics of Being Moved; Acts of Citizenship; Conclusion: Victim-Survivor Selfies and Networked Reflective Solidarity; Notes; References; 15 Selfless Selfie Citizenship: Chupacabras Selfie Project; Introduction; Constructing the 'Bad' Immigrant; Self-Less Selfies; Chupacabras Mask; Chupacabras Selfie Project; Conclusion; Notes; References; 16 'My Face Is Not for Public Consumption': Selfies, Surveillance and the Politics of Being Unseen

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

331945269X

9783319452692

OCLC:

954008230