The Selfie Generation
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The Selfie Generation

How Our Self-Images Are Changing Our Notions of Privacy, Sex, Consent, and Culture

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The Selfie Generation

How Our Self-Images Are Changing Our Notions of Privacy, Sex, Consent, and Culture

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About This Book

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; she explores questions of privacy, consent, ownership, and authenticity; and she points out important issues of sexism and double standards wherein women are encouraged to take them but then become subject to criticism and judgment. Alicia discusses the selfie as a paradox—both an image with potential for self-empowerment, yet also a symbol of complacency within surveillance culture The Selfie Generation explores just how much social media has changed the ways that people connect, communicate, and present themselves to the world.

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Publisher
Skyhorse
Year
2017
ISBN
9781510722668
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Popular Culture
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. An Introduction to the Selfieverse
  7. Chapter 1: Screen Kween!!!
  8. Chapter 2: Privacy Settings
  9. Chapter 3: Consent to the Image
  10. Chapter 4: The 24/7 Selfie News Cycle
  11. Chapter 5: Meta-Selfie Advertising, lol
  12. Chapter 6: Video Killed the Radio Star, Selfie Killed TV
  13. Chapter 7: Selfie Gazing
  14. Chapter 8: Fake News and Selfie Journalism! Read All About It!
  15. Chapter 9: The Authentic Selfie
  16. Acknowledgments
  17. Endnotes