| The Selfie Generation: Exploring Our Notions of Privacy, Sex, Consent, and Culture Contributor(s): Eler, Alicia (Author) |
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ISBN: 1510742859 ISBN-13: 9781510742857 Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Portraits & Selfies - Computers | Web - Social Media |
| Dewey: 302.302 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.00 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Internet |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Eler's book alights on the source of the selfie's power: It is the easiest way to assert one's humanity in our hyper-networked world. Perhaps our much-fussed-over narcissism is not a flaw but a survival tactic.--The New York Times Whether it's Kim Kardashian uploading picture after picture to Instagram or your roommate posting a mid-vacation shot to Facebook, selfies receive mixed reactions. But are selfies more than, as many critics lament, a symptom of a self-absorbed generation? Millennial Alicia Eler's The Selfie Generation is the first book to delve fully into this ubiquitous and much-maligned part of social media, including why people take them in the first place and the ways they can change how we see ourselves. Eler argues that selfies are just one facet of how we can use digital media to create a personal brand in the modern age. More than just a picture, they are an important part of how we live today. Eler examines all aspects of selfies, online social networks, and the generation that has grown up with them. She looks at how the boundaries between people's physical and digital lives have blurred with social media; she explores questions of privacy, consent, ownership, and authenticity; and she points out important issues of sexism and double standards wherein women are encouraged to take them but then become subject to criticism and judgment. Alicia discusses the selfie as a paradox--both an image with potential for self-empowerment, yet also a symbol of complacency within surveillance culture The Selfie Generation explores just how much social media has changed the ways that people connect, communicate, and present themselves to the world. |
Contributor Bio(s): Eler, Alicia: - Alicia Eler is a writer, culture journalist, selfie expert who covers art, culture, and Internet humor for Hyperallergic, Daily Dot LOL, and others and writes narrative essays for the Guardian and Fusion. Her coverage of selfie culture has been featured in New York Magazine and the Washington Post. She has been cited and featured as an expert or contributor in many publications including Buzzfeed, Daily Dot, Daily Mail, Gawker, Psychology Today, Vice magazine and others. She's given lectures and been a member of panel discussions on selfies and social media. She is based in Minneapolis. |