Selfies: Positioning the Face in Social Media
摘要
Networked images featuring mainly faces, or selfies, online provide novel developments in looking practices informed by the application of filters, the ambivalence around sharing, the relentless scrutiny of others’ images to detect flaws or fakes, and the ways in which these tensions are negotiated. Selfies are found by many to be something to celebrate and enjoy, yet we wonder how hypervisibility through digital practice might bring new tensions to bear.