TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tiidenberg,Katrin
TI  - Selfies: why we love (and hate) them 
T2  - SocietyNow
SN  - 9781787543577 (e-book)
AV  - HM621-656 
U1  - 778.92 23
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
KW  - Selfies (Photography)
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Social media
KW  - Research
KW  - Digital images
KW  - Self-portraits
KW  - Social Science
KW  - Media Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - bicssc
N1  - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - 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. 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.
UR  - https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781787543577
ER  -