Review article
The Selfie: The Phenomenon of False Self vs. True Self Representation in Contemporary Media Communication
Mia Janković Shentser
orcid.org/0000-0001-9435-1861
; Hart, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This paper explores the social phenomenon of selfie practice as a way of communication in social media networks. The phenomenon includes photographing and posting the selfie on social networks (SN) to make person available to the public eye, in this way feeding the self-esteem or narcissistic hunger, and as such being bought or sold in currency of likes.
As much as selfie is an interesting phenomenon of new technology era of self portrait and a tool for self-awareness and building up the self-esteem on SN, the problems of society are mirroring in this self-image: it serves as a platform for amplification of personality disorders and addiction on selfie and feedbacks from SN, it’s a cause of accidental mortality and an increase of facial plastic surgeries in the USA.
Nevertheless, selfie has a higher purpose in use among the population of black women, LGBT society (Lang, 2013), and other minorities, by nationality or emotional condition, hich use it as affirmation, identification, proof of existing and belonging. Feminists, similarly, use the selfie as a statement where the woman is the manifest and the subject.
Changing the urban landscape, is selfie showing our True Self or a pose for the public eye exhibiting a superimposed image based on our belief of good looks influenced by pop-culture?
Keywords
selfie; salse self; true self; self-image; social media communication
Hrčak ID:
233281
URI
Publication date:
23.12.2019.
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