Selfie Machine

Name: Selfie Machine
SKU: 9781978847156
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Author: Anirban K. Baishya
ISBN: 9781978847156

Selfies, Platforms, and Digital Image Culture in India

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvAnirban K. Baishya

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The Selfie Machine offers novel insight into personalized communication practices in the digital age through the medium of the selfie. While the selfie has achieved notoriety due to pop-psychology accounts of Narcissism-related selfie "disorders," this book examines the selfie as a mode of meaning making and self-presentation that includes not just still images, but also short videos, hashtag practices and economies of liking and following. In taking India as the starting point of its investigation, The Selfie Machine inverts the "West-then-the-rest" model of understanding global digital media practices. The book considers selfie culture's impact on personal and public digital practices and trends—ranging from cellphone markets, to influencer entrepreneurship and microcelebrity, to the conduct of politics and protest. In doing so, it not only offers an expanded definition of selfies in digital media culture, but also demonstrates how "global" digital media (including selfies) cannot be understood as a monolith.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-11-10
Mått156 x 235 x undefined mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagRutgers University Press
ISBN9781978847156

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"This is an extraordinarily original contribution to media and cultural theory. With great lucidity, Anriban Baishya expertly moves between debates in digital philosophy, interface design, media aesthetics, and material research from India. As Baishya so well argues, the selfie does not represent a singular moment; it multiplies, crafts, interconnects, and animates the social worlds of the contemporary." - Ravi Sundaram, author of Pirate Modernity: Delhi's Media Urbanism"The Selfie Machine dives into the intricate world of selfie culture in India and comes up with a compelling, must-read analysis of how the seemingly mundane act of turning the camera inward opens one up to a networked world pulsating with stories, politics, culture, and most importantly resistance that is global but also uniquely Indian." - Sangeet Kumar, author of The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web