New Media: The Rise of the Selfie

Sociology Media Specifications have, in recent years, started to focus a little more on the rise of new forms of media, particularly social media like Facebook and Twitter, but one area that’s not particularly well-covered is the idea of Selfie culture – either as a personally-shareable form or, increasingly, as an integral aspect of something like Instagram-culture (which is, as they say, a whole other story that’s probably better left to another day).

If you want to explore Selfie-culture in a little more detail this set of 22 slides on the Sociological impact of Selfies is a useful place to start.

Once you’re done with that, if you want to take things a little further, you can use incorporate selfies into a lesson plan as a tool through which to explore areas like Simulacra and Hyperreality.