- jill rettberg: seeing ourselves through technology: how we use selfies, blogs, and wearable devices to see and shape ourselves
this is a link to the entire book, which you don’t have to read (but you can!). instead, definitely read chapter 3, “serial selfies” and, if you feel like it (which you probably won’t because you already think this is too much reading!), chapter 4 “automated diaries” –both are interesting as identity projects and data sources. - t. senft “mirocelebrity and the branded self”
- veum and undrum, “the selfie as global discourse”
[[if social science takes on identity are not clear for you, here’s a pretty helpful primer on the issues of identity. you can skim if you like.]]
below is stuff that is not required, but which is nevertheless included here for some unknown reason…
- saltz, the history of the selfie (art history!)
- souza et al. dawn of the selfie era (quantitative analysis!)
- selfie city — comparing selfie styles across 5 cities [and a feminist critique of the project]