Why can’t I take a full-shot of myself? of course I can!” studying selfies as socio-technological affective practices

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ID12690100
AuthorsKaisu Hynnä-Granberg (0000-0002-9344-1395, University of Turku, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume22
Issue6
Pages1363-1378
Publication date2021-02-11
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Media Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-0777 • E-ISSN: 1471-5902
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14680777.2021.1886139
OpenAlexW3130928286
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited45

This article studies selfie-production as a socio-technological affective practice, bringing attention to a new and largely unstudied type of selfies, private selfies. Discussing an example of five Finnish women’s experiences with a body positive #righttobeseen campaign, the article argues for selfie scholarship to move beyond analyses of representation and image-sharing on social media platforms, if it is to understand selfies’ diverse role in selfie-takers’ lives. The article offers an analytical schema for studying selfies as socio-technological affective practices, combining the method of interview studies with affect theory and examination of selfies’ socio-technological underpinnings

Media studies · Political science · Schema (genetic algorithms · Scholarship · Selfie · Social media · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology

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