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-A | --A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website. | ||
"A subversive form of self-expression that | "A subversive form of self-expression that | ||
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[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.]
DEFINITION OF SELFIES
--A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.
"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."
[[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfie | wikipedia-selfie article]]
The selfie is a sub-category of the self-portrait, which has being practised for a long time, but the term has being invented in the past 10 years. The journal side of the selfie is that nowadays whenever a person, especially a tourist sees something nice, he/she positions him/her right in front of it and takes a picture.
Narcissus, who after glimpsing his reflection in a pond,
falls so deeply in love with it he is unable to leave –
eventually perishing.
SELFIE USAGE AROSE WITHIN SOCIAL NETWORKS.
"In the future everyone will be famous for 15 min." Andy Warhol
" 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. "
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
PHOTOGRAPHIC ASPECT OF SELFIES
the vitriolic backlash stems from a fear of who
it is both in front of and behind the camera.