Self-representation and the disaster event
Self-imaging, morality and immortality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20207668 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yasmin Ibrahim (0000-0003-4451-8488) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 211-227 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Media Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-2753 • E-ISSN: 2040-0926 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14682753.2015.1116755 |
| OpenAlex | W2288313437 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 23 |
There's growing interest in the notion of the ‘selfie’ in the digital age. Much of the interest has been making sense of this digital genre pervasive in its manifestation while implicating the individual and hinging on public gaze in digital platforms. As a form of self-representation, the selfie reveals the complex interplay of identity politics and self-curation where the self is amenable to multiple iterations of public gaze. This article, drawing on this complex interplay, inspects a specific phenomenon in this selfie culture where there is a tendency to picture oneself against the scene of trauma or tragedy. The ‘disaster selfie’ or ‘disaster porn’ as a particular genre invokes questions of the moral limit in the objectification and aestheticisation of self. This article explores the moral politics of disaster selfies, the role of the abject and our quest for immortality where these invoke a wider crisis for visuality and image ethics online
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Existentialism · Gaze · Immortality · Literature · Media studies · Narcissism · Objectification · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Self · Selfie · Sociology · Visual arts · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology
Capturing a crisis
On queer selfies
Social Media, Disasters, and Cultural Heritage
Technologies of Trauma
Posing on the Korean War border
A virtual gender asylum? The social media profile picture, young Chinese women’s self-empowerment, and the emergence of a Chinese digital feminism
Record, revise, reinvent, and resist
I am busy independent woman who has sense of humor, caring about others’
The Unsacred and the Spectacularized
Let's see how many of you mother fuckers unfollow me for this
Visuality and the 'Jihadi-bride' The re-fashioning of desire in the digital age
The transparency of evil
Powers of Horror
The Dark Triad and trait self-objectification as predictors of men’s use and self-presentation behaviors on social networking sites
Death, grief, and mourning
Instagramming life
Simulacra and Simulation
In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities
Symbolic Exchange and Death
Symbolic Exchange and Death
The lives of corpses
Sociology, mortality and solidarity. An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman on death, dying and immortality
On defeating death
The new risk communities
Digital Militarism
Speaking the Lacuna
JFK and dark tourism
Consuming dark tourism
Debord, Cybersituations, and the Interactive Spectacle
Imperial Debris
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |