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Visual Culture Approaches to the Selfie

236 Pages 8 Color & 35 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

236 Pages 8 Color & 35 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

236 Pages 8 Color & 35 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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This collection explores the cultural fascination with social media forms of self-portraiture, "selfies," with a specific interest in online self-imaging strategies in a Western context. This book examines the selfie as a social and technological phenomenon but also engages with digital self-portraiture as representation: as work that is committed to rigorous object-based analysis. The scholars... Read more

Introduction. The Selfie as Visual Culture: A Methodological Quandary

Derek Conrad Murray

1. Counter-Selfies and the Real Subsumption of Society

Grant Bollmer

2. Self-Portraiture and Self Performance

Katherine Guinness

3. Proliferating Identity: Trans Selfies as Contemporary Art

Ace Lehner

4. The Evolution of the Selfie: Influencers, Feminism and Visual Culture

Derek Conrad Murray

5. How Selfies Think: The Cognitive Dimensions of Digital Photography

Kyle Parry