Selfies
Why We Love (and Hate) Them
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date of Publication: 30 April 2018
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Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781787437173 |
| ISBN10: | 1787437175 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 168 pages |
| Size: | 198x129 mm |
| Weight: | 168 g |
| Language: | English |
| 28 |
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Short description:
This book presents 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.
Long description:
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.
This deceptively slim volume offers a deeper and more nuanced dive into its topic than many realize selfies deserve, revealing the form to be steeped in histories - of art, of photography, of technology - and contemporary attitudes toward gender, youth, and bodies. Remarkably clear, full of examples, and fun to read, this book is essential for anyone interested in popular culture.
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.
This deceptively slim volume offers a deeper and more nuanced dive into its topic than many realize selfies deserve, revealing the form to be steeped in histories - of art, of photography, of technology - and contemporary attitudes toward gender, youth, and bodies. Remarkably clear, full of examples, and fun to read, this book is essential for anyone interested in popular culture.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: What?s The Big Deal, It?s Just Selfies?
Chapter 1. What Are Selfies?
Chapter 2. How Do We Selfie?
Chapter 3. (Why) Do Selfies Matter?
Chapter 4. Post Selfie?
Conclusion
