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Selfie Citizenship

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Editors:
  1. Adi Kuntsman

    1. Manchester Metropolitan University , Manchester, United Kingdom

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  • Are selfies political?
  • What does selfie-based activism look like?
  • Who has the ability to make politicised selfies? Who lacks freedom to do so?
  • How are such selfies consumed, and by whom?

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Prologue

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Inject/ed: Self(ie) Determination

      • Raju Rage
      Pages 3-11

    3. Introduction: Whose Selfie Citizenship?

      • Adi Kuntsman
      Pages 13-18

  4. The Selfie Genre and Its New Adaptations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. Performative Intimacies and Political Celebritisation

      • Mattias Ekman, Andreas Widholm
      Pages 65-74

    3. Vote for My Selfie: Politician Selfies as Charismatic Engagement

      • Crystal Abidin
      Pages 75-87

    4. Biometric Citizens: Adapting Our Selfies to Machine Vision

      • Jill Walker Rettberg
      Pages 89-96

    5. Dronie Citizenship?

      • Maximilian Jablonowski
      Pages 97-106
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About this book

This collection reflects on the emerging phenomenon of ‘selfie citizenship’, which capitalises on individual visibility and agency, at the time when citizenship itself is increasingly governed through biometrics and large-scale dataisation. Today we are witnessing a global rise of politicised selfies: photographs of individuals with handwritten notes or banners, various selfie memes and hashtag actions, spread on social media in actions of protest or social mobilistion. Contributions in this collection range from discussions of citizen engagement, to political campaigning, to selfies as forms of citizen witnessing, to selfies without a face. The chapters cover uses of selfies by activists, tourists and politicians, victims and survivors, adults and children, in a broad range of geopolitical locations –China, Germany, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, the UK and the US. Written by an international and interdisciplinary group of authors, from senior professors to junior scholars, artists, graduate students and activist, the book is aimed at students, researchers, and media practitioners.

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Manchester Metropolitan University , Manchester, United Kingdom

    Adi Kuntsman

About the editor

Adi Kuntsman is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, the author of Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age (with Rebecca L. Stein), and the co-editor of Queer Necropolitics (with Jin Haritaworn and Silvia Posocco, 2014) and Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion: Feelings, Affect and Technologica Change (with Athina Karatzogianni).

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