THE SELF (RE)PRESENTATION. SELFIE AS CULTURAL ARTEFACT AND SOCIAL PRACTICE
THE SELF (RE)PRESENTATION. SELFIE AS CULTURAL ARTEFACT AND SOCIAL PRACTICE
Author(s): Andreea Alina MogoșSubject(s): Media studies, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: cyber-self; self-presentation; selfie; SNS.
Summary/Abstract: The issue of self (re)presentation rose over the time the interest of psychologists, sociologists, art historians and other social scientists. The current study will focus on clarifying the concepts of self-presentation and self-representation using the symbolic interactionism paradigm, and the dramaturgical approach, followed by an overview of the visual self-representations phenomenon in social networking systems. The analysis focuses on selfies as photographic objects (artefacts) and cultural practices.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai - Ephemerides
- Issue Year: 61/2016
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 51-67
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English
