Selfies : Why We Love (and Hate) Them

Every Day We Share hundreds of millions of photos on Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. Many of these are selfies. Selfies are continually talked about, yet persistently attacked as unworthy of all of this attention. They generate far more engagement than most other social media content, but are claimed to lack artistic merit, indicate narcissism, and lead to dangerously stupid behaviour. Tiidenberg offers a rich and nuanced analysis of selfie culture, exploring the social, cultural and technological aspects of how selfies gain their meaning, how they make us feel, and why they have the power to make us feel anything. This book is a compact, approachable insight into a ubiquitous cultural phenomenon. Book jacket.