Welcome to week 3: Dataveillance, Biometrics & Facial Recognition
Week three of the selfie course is about machine audiences for our selfies. Although most of us make selfies imagining other humans – or maybe just yourself – as the primary audience, our selfies are...
View ArticleReflecting on celebrity selfies
Last week I taught Week Two, the “celebrity selfie,” to my undergraduate social media seminar. I want to talk a bit about what worked and what didn’t. Worked: Imitating Celebrity Selfies This was a fun...
View ArticleA day in the life of a Selfies Researcher
Selfie presentations at conference. Selfie before selfie presentations at conference. Collage of selfies during presentation on selfies. Selfie of presenters of selfie presentations after selfie...
View ArticleMicrocelebrity Social Media Selfies
Reflecting on Week three’s work on selfies and microcelebrity, I thought I would share my take on the types of heterosexual feminine scripts microcelebrity social media personalities in Singapore use...
View ArticleWelcome to Week Four: gender, sexuality and dating
Popular commentary on ‘sexy selfies’ has tended to focus on (young) female subjects, and is linked to contemporary debates around the sexualisation of women and girls. However, men and boys also...
View ArticleWeek 4 Reflections
As one of the facilitators for this week, I posted a selfie if I was to ever set up an online dating profile. Despite how seriously I take the online sphere, I try not to take my profiles too...
View ArticleWeek 4 Prompt on Terms of Service
One of the components of social networks most of us don’t look at, let alone read in detail (unless we are researching it), are the long and windy Terms of Service. Although substantial changes to the...
View ArticleAnother Week Five question
Thankyou for stopping by – and I hope you find the week’s module useful for whatever material you are teaching in your class. Also feel free to let us know what you found useful and how you used this...
View ArticleWelcome to Week Five
This week we examine the production, representation and circulation of “subaltern” images online in the context of what we are calling as the “selfie genre”. My co-authors Anca Birzescu, Dinah Tetteh...
View ArticleAnnouncing the IJOC Special Issue on Selfies
Two fabulous members of our network, Nancy Baym and Theresa Senft, have edited a special issue of the International Journal of Communication all about selfies. There are a whopping EIGHTEEN new...
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