Thornham, HM and Gómez Cruz, E (2015) Selfies beyond self-representation: the (theoretical) f(r)ictions of a practice. Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, 7. 8. 1 - 10 (10). ISSN 2000-4214
Abstract
Drawing on a wide corpus of ethnographic research pro- jects, including on photography practices, young film- makers and writers, and current research with young unemployed people, we argue that contemporary under- standings of selfies either in relation to a ‘‘documenting of the self’’ or as a neoliberal (narcissistic) identity affirmation are inherently problematic. Instead, we argue that selfies should be understood as a wider social, cultural, and media phenomenon that understands the selfie as far more than a representational image. This, in turn, necessarily redirects us away from the object ‘‘itself,’’ and in so doing seeks to understand selfies as a socio-technical phenomenon that momentarily and tentatively holds together a number of different elements of mediated digital communication.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 E. Gómez Cruz and H. Thornham. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license. |
Keywords: | Selfies; Genealogies; self-representation; performance; sociotecnical practices; algorithms |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EPSRC EP/K003585/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 04 Jan 2016 12:39 |
Last Modified: | 04 Jan 2016 12:39 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jac.v7.28073 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Co-Action Publishing |
Identification Number: | 10.3402/jac.v7.28073 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:93099 |