The self in selfies-Conceptualizing the selfie-coordination of marginalized youth with sociology of engagements

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ID5609908
AutoresTaina Meriluoto (0000-0003-1793-1031, University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume74
Fascículo4
Páginas638-656
Data de publicação2023-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBritish Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-4446.13015
PMID36992576
OpenAlexW4361276695
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas44

This article develops a theory of selfies as reflexive practices of self-coordination. Building on pragmatist sociology of engagements, I conceptualize selfies as digital practices of coordinating with the self in formats that are recognizable for others. This framework allows approaching the self as an act of coordination, simultaneously shaped by, and equipped to subvert the cultural conditions of how we ought to be. As these conditions are increasingly enforced and negotiated in the socio-technological arrangements of digital platforms, the article proposes an approach for making sense of selfies as key contemporary tools of self-making. Based on ethnographic work among activists with marginalizing experiences, I ask how the self is coordinated in the activists' selfies. I identify four ways of coordinating with the self in selfies: the self in a plan, the self in exploration, the affirmed self, and the self as public critique. The article contributes to our understanding on how practices of self-making evolve in an increasingly visual-digital society, and provides an approach for conceptualising the self as plural. By approaching the selfie as different formats of relating to the self, the framework proposed accounts for the possibility of multiple selves now afforded by digital technologies and enables analysing their politicizing potential

Epistemology · Ethnography · Media studies · Plural · Political science · Public relations · Reflexivity · Self · Selfie · Social science · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology