Visual Culture Approaches to the Selfie

<p>This collection explores the cultural fascination with social media forms of self-portraiture, "selfies," with a specific interest in online self-imaging strategies in a Western context.</p><p>This book examines the selfie as a social and technological phenomenon but also engages with digital self-portraiture as representation: as work that is committed to rigorous object-based analysis. The scholars in this volume consider the topic of online self-portraiture—both its social function as a technology-driven form of visual communication, as well as its thematic, intellectual, historical, and aesthetic intersections with the history of art and visual culture.</p><p>This book will be of interest to scholars of photography, art history, and media studies.</p> <p>Introduction. The Selfie as Visual Culture: A Methodological Quandary</p><p><em>Derek Conrad Murray</em></p><p>1. Counter-Selfies and the Real Subsumption of Society</p><p><em>Grant Bollmer</em></p><p><strong>2. </strong>Self-Portraiture and Self Performance</p><p><em>Katherine Guinness</em></p><p>3. Proliferating Identity: Trans Selfies as Contemporary Art </p><p><em>Ace Lehner</em></p><p>4. The Evolution of the Selfie: Influencers, Feminism and Visual Culture</p><p><em>Derek Conrad Murray</em></p><p>5. How Selfies Think: The Cognitive Dimensions of Digital Photography</p><p><em>Kyle Parry</em></p><p>6. Domestic Snapshots: Female Self-Imaging Practices Then and Now</p><p><em>Soraya Murray</em></p><p>7. The Selfie in Consumer Culture</p><p><em>Jonathan Schroeder</em></p><p>8. Selfie Narcissism, Consumerism and the Pathologizing of Women</p><p><em>Derek Conrad Murray</em></p>