Visual culture approaches to the selfie

Abstract

"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. The 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 in this volume consider the topic of online self-portraiture - both its social function as a technology-driven form of visual communication, as well as its thematic, intellectual, historical, and aesthetic intersections with the history of art and visual culture. This book will be of interest to scholars of photography, art history, and media studies"--Provided by publisher.

Contents

Counter-selfies and the real subsumption of society / Grant Bollmer -- Self-portraiture and self performance / Katherine Guinness -- Proliferating identity : trans selfies as contemporary art / Ace Lehner -- The evolution of the selfie : influencers, feminim, and visual culture / Derek Conrad Murray -- How selfies think : the cognitive dimensions of digital photography / Kyle Parry -- Domestic snapshots : female self-imaging practices then and now / Soraya Murray -- The selfie in consumer culture / Jonathan Schroeder -- Selfie narcissism, consumerism and tghe pathologizing of women / Derek Conrad Murray.