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Selfies: New Visual Culture of New Digital Society

Selfies: New Visual Culture of New Digital Society

Ayşe Aslı Sezgin
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 28
ISBN13: 9781522533733|ISBN10: 1522533737|EISBN13: 9781522533740
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3373-3.ch004
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Sezgin, Ayşe Aslı. "Selfies: New Visual Culture of New Digital Society." Selfies as a Mode of Social Media and Work Space Research, edited by Shalin Hai-Jew, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 75-102. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3373-3.ch004

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Sezgin, A. A. (2018). Selfies: New Visual Culture of New Digital Society. In S. Hai-Jew (Ed.), Selfies as a Mode of Social Media and Work Space Research (pp. 75-102). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3373-3.ch004

Chicago

Sezgin, Ayşe Aslı. "Selfies: New Visual Culture of New Digital Society." In Selfies as a Mode of Social Media and Work Space Research, edited by Shalin Hai-Jew, 75-102. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3373-3.ch004

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Abstract

In this study, digital culture emerging with new communication technologies after oral culture and the written culture will be examined in a critical perspective with the example of selfie. As expressed previously, many studies conducted with the same content has focused on the individual psychological effects of selfies. But study will be focusing on the social effects of selfies which are considered as a new visual culture of the new digital society in this study. The new cultural environment in Turkey created by the selfies in which the impacts of globalization can be observed is being discussed in this study and it will try to evaluate the sociological dimensions of selfies shared publicly by the most widely followed users in Instagram which is among the social media network based on visualization while highlighting the disappeared properties of oral and written culture

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