The fact that “selfie” was Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year for 2013 indicates that the selfie is a topic of popular interest. Yet for scholars, the selfie phenomenon represents a paradox. As an object, the selfie lends itself to cultural scorn and shaming. As a cultural practice, however, selfie circulation grows by the moment, moving far beyond the clichéd province of bored teenagers online.
In this course the use of “selfies” in popular culture will be thought as discourse, evidence, affect, ethics and performance/presentation of self.
- Teacher: Kaisu Hynnä-Granberg