User:Mihail Bakalov/Trimester 4/READING, WRITING AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES/MediaObject
[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 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." wikipedia - selfie article
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 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. "
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.