This volume explores the selfie not only as a specific photographic practice that is deeply rooted in digital culture, but also how it is understood in relation to other media of self-portrayal. Unlike the public debate about the dangers of 'selfie-narcissism', this anthology discusses what the practice of taking and sharing selfies can tell us about media culture today: can the selfie be critiqued as an image or rather as a social practice? What are the technological conditions of this form of vernacular photography? By gathering articles from the fields of media studies; art history; cultural studies; visual studies; philosophy; sociology and ethnography, this book provides a media archaeological perspective that highlights the relevance of the selfie as a stereotypical as well as creative practice of dealing with ourselves in relation to technology.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. The Selfie as Image (and) Practice Approaching Digital Self-Photography. - 2. The Consecration of the Selfie. A Cultural History. - 3. Selfie-Reflexivity. Pictures of People Taking Photographs. - 4. Locating the `Selfie Within Photography s History and Beyond. - 5. The Selfie as Feedback: Video, Narcissism, and the Closed-Circuit Video Installation. - 6. The Selfie and the Face. - 7. Selfies & Authorship On the Displayed Authorship and the Author Function of the Selfie. - 8. Competitive Photography and the Presentation of the Self. - 9. Of Duckfaces and Cat-beards: Why Do Selfies Need Genres? . - 10. Interfacing the Self Smartphone Snaps and the Temporality of the Selfie. - 11. The Video Selfie as Act and Artefact of Recording. - 12. Be a Hero Self-Shoots at the Edge of the Abyss. - 13. Strike a Pose: Robot Selfies. - 14. Selfies and Purikura as Affective, Aesthetic Labour. - 15. The Kid Selfie as Self-Inscription: Re-Inventing an Emerging Media Practice. - 16. Machos and Top Girls : Photographic Self-Images of Berlin Hauptschüler. -
