User:Mihail Bakalov/Trimester 4/READING, WRITING AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES/MediaObject

selfieFlame

[Steve: why are selfies important to you?

make annotation of the texts you are using here, take the text out of the sketch status and write about your subject. 1st step - annotate the texts you have found and formulate an argument using those texts.]

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DEFINITION OF SELFIES

"A subversive form of self-expression that narrates one's own view of desirability. In this sense, selfies can be empowering and offer a way of actively asserting agency."

Narcissus, who after glimpsing his reflection in a pond, falls so deeply in love with it he is unable to leave – eventually perishing.

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SELFIE USAGE RAISED WITHIN SOCIAL NETWORKS.

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 min. [S: who said that?]

" Every girl with her own Wi-Fi connection can become the content, can become a new standard of beauty that is more diverse and flexible than ever before. "

- http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/comment/selfies-hardly-the-end-of-civilisation-as-we-know-it-20140912-10g5k5.html

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COMPARISON BETWEEN SELF-PORTRAIT AND SELFIES

James Franco defends the self-portrait stating they should not be seen as an egocentric act, but instead a journalistic moment as it cultivates a "visual culture, the selfie quickly and easily shows, not tells, how you're feeling, where you are, what you're doing", much like a photojournalist image

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PHOTOGRAPHIC ASPECT OF SELFIES

the vitriolic backlash stems from a fear of who it is both in front of and behind the camera.