Ray, Avishek; Dattatreyan, E. Gabriel; Raman, Usha; Webb, Martin; Gupta, Neha; Komarraju, Sai Amulya; Premika, Anuja; Azam, Riad; Salim, Farhat and Subramanian, Pravanesh. 2024. Digital Expressions of the Self(ie): The Social Life of Selfies in India. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9781032694788 [Book]

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The book examines the social and cultural role of selfies in India. It looks at how the selfie, unlike the photograph, which was a gesture towards an external reality, remains intimately self-referential, yet reconfigures social ordering, identity formation, agency, and spaces in curious ways.

This volume approaches questions about the construction and performance of the self through the digital selfie and uses this situated, contextualized, and culturally specific phenomenon as a site to explore the themes of self-making, place-making, gender, subjectivity, and power. Highlighting the specific contexts of production, the authors examine the array of self-expressive capabilities realized in a multitude of uses of the selfie that simultaneously reconfigure the self, the space, and the world.

An important study of visual social media culture, the volume will be useful for interpreting everyday media experiences and will be of interest to students and researchers of image studies, visual studies, photography studies, visual culture, media studies, culture studies, cultural anthropology, digital humanities, popular culture, sociology of technology, and South Asian studies.

Item Type:	Book
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032694726
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Anthropology
Date:	6 February 2024
Item ID:	34718
Date Deposited:	06 Feb 2024 15:31
Last Modified:	06 Feb 2024 15:31
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/34718

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