What is it about?
Much has been written about photography in the world of anthropology, but little attention has been given to the practice of selfie-taking. This experimental paper employs the practice of Instagram self-portraiture as a methodological tool that allows the researcher to conduct practical ethnographic research into this phenomenon.
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Why is it important?
In a world where millions of selfies are uploaded to Instagram every day, an anthropological analysis of the purpose and process of creating these images is a much needed addition to the corpus of scholarly work on social media use.
Perspectives
The selfie is a way of gaining entry into a network of likeminded Instagram users, but it is also a tool for gaining new anthropological knowledge about identity, self making and the digital world.
Dr Joshua M Bluteau
Coventry University
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This page is a summary of: Turning around the camera: Self-portraits of an anthropologist on Instagram, Ethnography, February 2023, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/14661381231158945.
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