Visual Culture Approaches to the Selfie

This collection explores the cultural fascination with social media forms of self-portraiture, "selfies," with a specific interest in online self-imaging strategies in a Western context.

Derek Conrad Murray is a Professor of the History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Introduction. The Selfie as Visual Culture: A Methodological Quandary Derek Conrad Murray 1. Counter-Selfies and the Real Subsumption of Society Grant Bollmer 2. Self-Portraiture and Self Performance Katherine Guinness 3. Proliferating Identity: Trans Selfies as Contemporary Art Ace Lehner 4. The Evolution of the Selfie: Influencers, Feminism and Visual Culture Derek Conrad Murray 5. How Selfies Think: The Cognitive Dimensions of Digital Photography Kyle Parry 6. Domestic Snapshots: Female Self-Imaging Practices Then and Now Soraya Murray 7. The Selfie in Consumer Culture Jonathan Schroeder 8. Selfie Narcissism, Consumerism and the Pathologizing of Women Derek Conrad Murray