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What is Selfie

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Virtual and Augmented Reality in Education, Art, and Museums
A Present since 2009 in Wiktionary , it was recently registered as a neologism (August 2013) and elected “word of the year” by the Oxford Dictionaries. Selfie is not a perfect synonym of selfie (in neither of its two senses of “device for late shooting of a camera” and “photography in which the shooter is also the subject”), as it is not in English of automatic shutter release or self-shot or self-portrait: as suggested by the Oxford Dictionaries Online, the term means a photograph taken to oneself and typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website, typically without the aid of time, with a smartphone or webcam, destined to be shared on social networks ( a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website ). It is no coincidence, in fact, that the practice of selfie has had a boom in popularity at the same time as the introduction of the front camera in smartphones.
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Ubiquitous Self: From Self-Portrait to Selfie
Giorgio Cipolletta (University of Macerata, Italy)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1796-3.ch006
Abstract
In 2013, the Oxford Dictionaries announced “selfie” as the word of the year. The dictionary defined it as “a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.” Selfies are also a complex form of social interaction, an emerging aesthetics, thus having an irrevocable impact on self-portraiture. All visual culture revolves around the body and the body par excellence is the face. The 21st century portrait represents a kind of black mirror where we project ourselves into a kind of blindness. Mask and face are confused by an omnipresent multividuality in which the shield reveals itself and reveals other possible worlds. The face-mask melts in between Real and Virtual and the self becomes augmented.
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Terms of the Digital Age: Realities and Cultural Paradigms
Photograph taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.
Published in Chapter: Terms of the Digital Age: Realities and Cultural Paradigms; From: Handbook of Research on Media Literacy in the Digital Age
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Social Identity Seeking and Sharing as a Creative Activity of Art Consumers
A photograph taken by oneself, the most often it is taken with a smartphone or and shared via social media.
Published in Chapter: Social Identity Seeking and Sharing as a Creative Activity of Art Consumers; From: Handbook of Research on Advanced Research Methodologies for a Digital Society
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