Exploring the Selfie (eBook)

Julia Eckel is Research and Teaching Associate at the Institute of Media Studies at Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. Jens Ruchatz is Professor of audiovisual transfer processes at the Institute of Media Studies at Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. Sabine Wirth is Research and Teaching Associate at the Institute of Media Studies at Philipps-University Marburg, Germany.

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.-