The selfie generation : exploring our notions of privacy, sex, consent, and culture
Eler, Alicia2019
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Whether it's Kim Kardashian uploading picture after picture to Instagram or your roommate posting a mid-vacation shot to Facebook, selfies receive mixed reactions. But are selfies more than, as many critics lament, a symptom of a self-absorbed generation? Millennial Alicia Eler's The Selfie Generation is the first book to delve fully into this ubiquitous and much-maligned part of social media, including why people take them in the first place and the ways they can change how we see ourselves. Eler argues that selfies are just one facet of how we can use digital media to create a personal brand in the modern age. More than just a picture, they are an important part of how we live today. Eler examines all aspects of selfies, online social networks, and the generation that has grown up with them. She looks at how the boundaries between people's physical and digital lives have blurred with social media and discusses the selfie as a paradox - both an image with potential for self-empowerment, yet also a symbol of complacency within surveillance culture.
Main title:
Author:
Eler, Alicia, author
Edition:
First paperback edition.
Imprint:
New York : Skyhorse Publishing, 2019.©2017.
Collation:
xix, 312 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
ch. 1. Screen Kween!!! -- ch. 2. Privacy Settings -- ch. 3. Consent to the Image -- ch. 4. The 24/ 7 Selfie News Cycle -- ch. 5. Meta-Selfie Advertising, lol -- ch. 6. Video Killed the Radio Star, Selfie Killed TV -- ch. 7. Selfie Gazing -- ch. 8. Fake News and Selfie Journalism! Read All About It! -- ch. 9. The Authentic Selfie.
ISBN:
9781510742857 (pbk)9781510722668 (ebook)
Dewey class:
302.30285
Language:
English
BRN:
522305