Selfies : why we love (and hate) them / by Katrin Tiidenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tiidenberg, Katrin, author.

Series:

SocietyNow.

SocietyNow

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Selfies (Photography)--Social aspects.

Selfies (Photography).

Social media--Research.

Social media.

Digital images--Social aspects.

Digital images.

Self-portraits--Social aspects.

Self-portraits.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2018]

Summary:

This book brings a rich and nuanced analysis of selfie culture. It shows how selfies gain their meanings, illustrates different selfie practices, explores how selfies make us feel and why they have the power to make us feel anything, and unpacks how selfie practices and selfie related norms have changed or might change in the future. As humans, we have a long history of being drawn to images, of communicating visually, and being enchanted with (our own) faces. Every day we share hundreds of millions of photos on Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. Selfies are continually and passionately talked about. People take vast amounts of selfies, and generate more attention than most other social media content. But selfies are persistently attacked as being unworthy of all of this attention: they lack artistic merit; indicate a pathological fascination with one's self; or attribute to dangerously stupid behaviour. This book explores the social, cultural and technological context surrounding selfies and their subsequent meaning.

Contents:

Intro

Selfies: Why We Love (and Hate) Them

Contents

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Introduction: What's The Big Deal, It's Just Selfies?

Why Write a Book About Selfies?

Key Terms

Affordances

Discourse and Rhetoric

Interaction

Performativity

Selfie Culture

Social Cues

Virality

Visibility

Visuality

Visual Culture

Organization of the Book

1: What Are Selfies?

A Brief Explanation of Visual Self-Representation in Art History

Self-Representation in Photography: Another Brief History

Going Digital

Camera on Your Phone

Shareable

Selfie as a Networked Self-Representation

So What Are Selfies?

2: How Do We Selfie?

Activities

Things and Their Use

Contexts

So How Do We Selfie?

But What Are We Doing, When We Are Doing Selfies?

Selfie Practices as a Performance

Selfie Practices as Tools to Think With

Selfie Practices as Interaction

Selfie Practices as a Way to Feel

Selfie Practices as a Way to Express

Selfie Practices as Work

3: (Why) Do Selfies Matter?

When Selfies Make Us Feel Bad

Narcissism

Authenticity

Quality

Moral Panics and Shaming

When Selfies Make Us Feel Good

Empowerment

Why Don't All Selfie Experiences Create a Sense of Control?

4: Post Selfie?

I'm the Root of All That's Evil, But You Can Call Me Selfie

elfie-Worth

Peak-Selfie

The Future is Now

The Future is Tomorrow

Now What?

Critical Literacy as a Way to Form Opinions and Filter Information

Critical Literacy as a Way of Engaging with Networked Technologies

Critical Literacy as a Form of Personal Ethics

Conclusion

Key Takeaways

Keep Calm and Selfie On

References

References for Texts Included in the Analysis of Selfie as a Metaphor in Chapter 4

Recommended Readings on Selfies (Not Referenced in Text).

To Understand the Media Discourse that Links Selfies to Narcissism

To Understand the Linguistic Productivity of the Selfie Word

Recommended Other Readings (Not Referenced in Text)

To Understand Social Media

To Understand Social Media Affordances

To Understand Networked Visuality and Its History

To Understand Machine Vision

To Understand Post-Digital

If You're Interested in Practice Theory

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9781787543591

1787543595

9781787543577

1787543579