This book examines selfies as a relational and processual networked
social practice, performed between people within digital contexts
and that involve online/offline intersections and tensions. It
offers an analysis of selfies through a rich and interdisciplinary
framework, that explores the ritualized and affective engagements
selfies provoke from others. Given that selfies by definition are
shared and posted through networked platforms, they complicate
notions of traditional photographic self-portraiture. As such, this
book explores how selfies invoke broader, stratified patterns of
looking that are occluded in discourses of "empowerment" and
"visibility", as well as the subjectivities these networked
practices work to produce. Drawing on extensive qualitative
research conducted over a period of three years, this book
questions not only what selfies are but what they do, they worlds
they create, the imaginaries that organize them, and the flows of
desire, affect and normativity that underpin them, questions that
can only be addressed through research that closely attends to the
experience of selfie-takers. It will be of interest to those
working in the fields of Sociology, Cultural studies,
Communications, Visual Studies, Social Media studies, Feminist
research and Affect Theory.
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