Welcome to selfiestan’
Identity and the networked gaze in Indian mobile media
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11268367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Monteiro (0000-0001-8818-6185, Concordia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 93-108 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0163443719846610 |
| OpenAlex | W2943916691 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 32 |
This article examines selfie culture and visual social media in India by exploring how smartphone marketing and the performativity of the user–device interface intersect with the cultural influence of the Hindu ritual of darshan and the recent political success of populist Hindu nationalism. Darshan, a long-standing, everyday Hindu practice entailing an active visual and physical exchange between worshiper and devotional image or object, bears striking overlaps with the mechanics and conditions of the networked visuality of the self. Taking a critical technology approach, this article places scholarship on selfies and their production methods in conversation with anthropological descriptions of darshan and existing theories of darshan’s impact on media in South Asia. Theoretical exploration of concepts and practices is augmented by content analysis of social media imagery related to darshan. In arguing that aspects of traditional visual regimes may endure in personal networked media use in India, this work underscores the need for balancing globalized affordances and applications, on one hand, with culturally specific meanings and ideological frames, on the other, particularly as these converge in the visual performance of networked identity
Aesthetics · Affordance · Art · Cognitive psychology · Conversation · Gaze · Hinduism · Linguistics · Media studies · New media · Performativity · Political science · Scholarship · Selfie · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Visual culture · World Wide Web · Anthropology · Cinema and Media Studies · Communication · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
Art And Agency
A Networked Self
Filming the Gods
The Material Culture Reader
The Dark Triad and trait self-objectification as predictors of men’s use and self-presentation behaviors on social networking sites
Me
Rise of the Political Right in India
Social media photography
Affordances-in-practice
Beyond the self
Coalescing the mirror and the screen
The selfie as a global discourse
Selfie Culture in the Age of Corporate and State Surveillance
Making of Selfie Nationalism
Fear and Selfie‐Loathing in America
Symbol, idol and mūrti
Globalisation or glocalisation
Glancing
Introduction to the Social Media + Society Special Issue on Selfies
A Snapshot of Social Media
Selfie Love
| Citations per year | 1.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |