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This book brings a rich and nuanced analysis of selfie culture. It shows how selfies gain their meanings, illustrates different selfie practices, explores how selfies make us feel and why they have the power to make us feel anything, and unpacks how selfie practices and selfie related norms have changed or might change in the future.
As humans, we have a long history of being drawn to images, of communicating visually, and being enchanted with (our own) faces. Every day we share hundreds of millions of photos on Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. Selfies are continually and passionately talked about. People take vast amounts of selfies, and generate more attention than most other social media content. But selfies are persistently attacked as being unworthy of all of this attention: they lack artistic merit; indicate a pathological fascination with ones self; or attribute to dangerously stupid behaviour.
This book explores the social, cultural and technological context surrounding selfies and their subsequent meaning.

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SELFIES

Why We Love
(and Hate) Them

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SELFIES

Why We Love
(and Hate) Them

KATRIN TIIDENBERG

Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School, Tallinn University, Estonia

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School of Communication and Culture Information Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark

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Emerald Publishing Limited
Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley BD16 1WA, UK

First edition 2018

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ISBN: 978-1-78743-717-3 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-78754-357-7 (E-ISBN)
ISBN: 978-1-78754-359-1 (Epub)

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This book might not have been possible without my friend and mentor, Annette Markham, who brought up my selfie research in a conversation with Emeralds publisher Jen McCall, and urged me to put together a book proposal, at a moment when I thought I was perhaps already done with writing about selfies. I clearly wasnt. Writing this has been a treat. Thank you, Annette for your friendship, your feedback, and for putting me in an office with a giant whiteboard. Thank you Jen McCall for wanting to publish this book, and Rachel Ward for making the administrative parts of it smooth.

This book most probably would not have been, if my son were less of a gentle soul, or less of a flexible human. Together we were able to bend and not break, when writing, working and studying in a different country, away from home. Thank you buddy. You are my greatest love.

Im grateful to my husband, sister, my friends and colleagues, who read and commented on bits and pieces, and to friends and students who speculated and future-wandered with me. Thank you Abby Oakley, Anja Bechmann, Asko Lehmuskallio, Cindy Tekobbe, Christoph Raetzsch, Evelin Kullman, Gabriel Pereira, John Carter McKnight, Kata Boronte, Katie Warfield, Kevin Driscoll, Kristjan Maalt, Kristoffer Thyrrestrup, Kseniia Kalugina, Mari-Klara Stein, Michael Burnam Fink, Oliver Kullman, Siim Tiidenberg and Steve Stein.

Last, but definitely not least, thank you colleagues of the Selfie Research Network for our exciting, lively communal space of thought, link and dialogue. Thank you Terri Senft for starting it, and thank you Amparo Lasen, Bent Fausing, Crystal Abidin, Hannah Ackermans, Jill Walker Rettberg, Luciano De Sampaio, Shahid Mirza, Sofia Caldeira, Tiffany Mariposa, Toni Eagar, Zeynep Donmez Bezroko and Yaren Jolie specifically for telling me about the selfie words usage in your countries.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Katrin Tiidenberg, PhD, is Associate Professor of Social Media and Visual Culture at the Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School of Tallinn University, Estonia, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is a founding member of the Estonian Young Academy of Sciences, a second-time board member of the Estonian Association of Sociologists and has just published her first book in Estonian on social media. She is currently publishing and speaking on selfie culture, digital research ethics, visual research methods and young peoples social media practices. Her research interests include visual culture, social media, self-presentation, gender, sexuality and norms.

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Introduction

WHATS THE BIG DEAL, ITS JUST SELFIES?

One afternoon, on the very first week of December 2017, when this book was practically done, I asked my son what selfies are. Hes eight.

Well, he said, selfies are when you take a picture with your phone. Like you turn the camera around, and you look at yourself, like with Snapchat, and you take a picture.

He stretches out his arm and mimes the gesture. He then presses his cheek to mine and takes a pretend selfie. From the corner of my eye, I catch him pulling a face, but cant really tell what the expression is.

Do you have to make a face to take a selfie? I ask.

Yeah, he says, like its obvious. You can do this, he says and winks, raises his hand and spreads his fingers into a victory V that grazes his cheekbone; or this, he pouts his lips into a kiss; or this he says, sticking out his butt.

I watch with wide eyes and an open mouth. I am pretty sure I have never seen him do any of the things. I know I do the kissy face when I take pictures with my sister, my mom, my best friends, probably him too. But the butt thing?! That is not me, I swear!

One part cracking up; two parts uneasy, I press on, intrigued. So, who do you think likes taking selfies?

Girls, when they have pretty dresses on, he says.

I see, I say, trying to keep at bay the creeping sadness at the apparent tentacles of mainstream explanations and everyday sexism within my kid. But boys can boys take selfies too?, I ask and brace for the response.

Oh! Yeah, he says. Hes sure. There is no doubt in his voice.

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