...selfies aren’t merely a “look-at-me!” attention-grab. - TopicsExpress



          

...selfies aren’t merely a “look-at-me!” attention-grab. They’re an attempt to place oneself in a context, to understand how we fit into a bigger picture. ... Just six days before Breanna posted her own selfie, the New Yorker documented the phenomenon in an article titled “Should Auschwitz be a Site for Selfies?” And yet this specific image — already a month old, and buried deep in Breanna’s Twitter feed — is the only one that “went viral,” because it’s the only one Business Insider (and Buzzfeed and Gawker and the Daily Mail and all the other usual mainstays of the Internet outrage machine) chose to boost. There are page views to be had, and money to be made, in shaming dumb kids with Twitter accounts … regardless of how dated and unexceptional the tweet, or how complicating their back stories.
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 14:15:55 +0000

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