Exploring the Selfie : Historical, Theoretical, and Analytical Approaches to Digital Self-Photography / / edited by Julia Eckel, Jens Ruchatz, Sabine Wirth

• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2018.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxi, 392 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 757
• Soggetto topico: Communication; Social media; Photography; Culture—Study and teaching; Media and Communication; Social Media; Cultural Theory
• Persona (resp. second.): EckelJulia; RuchatzJens; WirthSabine
• Nota di contenuto: 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.-.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Exploring the Selfie
• ISBN: 3-319-57949-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910300000303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II