ADC: 7. Selfies Exam Questions With
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SELFIES - CORRECT ANSWER-= self-representational networked photographs
(embodied image, ways of making ourselves visible to the world)
practice (making pics) > pictures themselves
= embodiment of communication/self-performance
-> connects to devices, cultural traditions, social practices, hierarchies
SELF-REPRESENTATION - CORRECT ANSWER-making sense of
ourselves/understanding ourselves through capturing ourselves
-> tech captures but also distorts who we are (just like memes - funhouse mirror)
AFFORDANCES - ways of making people more attractive/better -> features that allow
certain actions (Web 2.0 - participation, 4chan - anonymity) (Selfies - create situations,
offer sing vehicles)
SELF-REPRESENTATION - 3 MODES - CORRECT ANSWER-WRITTEN - self-
examination as self-improvement (diaries, blogs) & confession & narration => intimacy
VS imagined public (writing w/audience in mind)
VISUAL - before sculptures, painting etc -> then photography -> NOW:
ONLINE:
, - AVATARS - anonymity, laboratories for identity construction
- PHOTOGRAPHY - "personalisation" of self online + professional -> personal =>
presenting/making ourselves visible through photo becomes MAINSTREAM
QUANTIFIED - data body (database, files, shadowbodies) - non-narrative => self-
representation/understanding on datafied things
SELF-REPRESENTATION - analogue vs digital - CORRECT ANSWER-analogue:
VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHY - CAPTURES (memory) + MANAGES PEOPLE
(mugshots, gotta prove w/pic) + CHANGES WORLD PERCEPTION + privacy VS
publicness
digital:
digital camera - cheaper = ubiquitous
phone camera - REGULAR PART OF OUR TOURIST GAZE = capture anything
anytime we want + CAPTURING OURSELVES (front-facing camera, video calls)
devices -> affect photographic self-representation
SELF-REPRESENTATION - NETWORKED
network -> gives photographs new status - CORRECT ANSWER-UBIQUITY &
IMMEDIACY
FORMS: genres, conventions -> no tech but society shapes that = imitation & technical
affordances (special features, filters)
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SELFIES - CORRECT ANSWER-= self-representational networked photographs
(embodied image, ways of making ourselves visible to the world)
practice (making pics) > pictures themselves
= embodiment of communication/self-performance
-> connects to devices, cultural traditions, social practices, hierarchies
SELF-REPRESENTATION - CORRECT ANSWER-making sense of
ourselves/understanding ourselves through capturing ourselves
-> tech captures but also distorts who we are (just like memes - funhouse mirror)
AFFORDANCES - ways of making people more attractive/better -> features that allow
certain actions (Web 2.0 - participation, 4chan - anonymity) (Selfies - create situations,
offer sing vehicles)
SELF-REPRESENTATION - 3 MODES - CORRECT ANSWER-WRITTEN - self-
examination as self-improvement (diaries, blogs) & confession & narration => intimacy
VS imagined public (writing w/audience in mind)
VISUAL - before sculptures, painting etc -> then photography -> NOW:
ONLINE:
, - AVATARS - anonymity, laboratories for identity construction
- PHOTOGRAPHY - "personalisation" of self online + professional -> personal =>
presenting/making ourselves visible through photo becomes MAINSTREAM
QUANTIFIED - data body (database, files, shadowbodies) - non-narrative => self-
representation/understanding on datafied things
SELF-REPRESENTATION - analogue vs digital - CORRECT ANSWER-analogue:
VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHY - CAPTURES (memory) + MANAGES PEOPLE
(mugshots, gotta prove w/pic) + CHANGES WORLD PERCEPTION + privacy VS
publicness
digital:
digital camera - cheaper = ubiquitous
phone camera - REGULAR PART OF OUR TOURIST GAZE = capture anything
anytime we want + CAPTURING OURSELVES (front-facing camera, video calls)
devices -> affect photographic self-representation
SELF-REPRESENTATION - NETWORKED
network -> gives photographs new status - CORRECT ANSWER-UBIQUITY &
IMMEDIACY
FORMS: genres, conventions -> no tech but society shapes that = imitation & technical
affordances (special features, filters)
