Book
The selfie generation : how our self-images are changing our notions of privacy, sex, consent, and culture / Alicia Eler.
Record details
- ISBN: 1510722645
- ISBN: 9781510722644
- Physical Description: xix, 294 pages : illustrations
- Publisher: New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 38.99 |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Self-portraits. Self-presentation. Photography > Social aspects. Social media > Social aspects. Online social networks. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 302.30285 Ele | 31681020069928 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A culture journalist discusses the blurring of peopleâs physical and digital lives on social media and argues that taking selfies is a way of creating a personal brand in the modern age as she explores questions about privacy, consent, ownership and authenticity. 10,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
Links the current obssession with Internet selfie's to the human need for connection and community, describing how the barriers between social and digital lives have become blurred and how that affects issues of self-image, trust, and representation. - Perseus Publishing
For readers of Nancy Jo Sales and Sherry Turkle, a revealing and irreverent look at the power and potential of selfies in our modern world of social media. - Perseus Publishing
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 peopleâs 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 paradoxâboth 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.
