Demystifying ‘selfie’: a rampant social media activity

Shah, Reena; Tewari, Ruchi

doi:10.1080/0144929x.2016.1201693

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“…Due to the popularization of mobile devices and enhancing photographic function in cell phones, visitors have taken and increasingly uploaded much more selfies than in the past. This was one of the corollaries of social media platform development [50]. In our study, many more facial images originated from selfies by female visitors than by male visitors.…”

Section: The Gender Effect On Facial Expressionmentioning

confidence: 64%

“…In our study, many more facial images originated from selfies by female visitors than by male visitors. This was attributed to the nature of attitude and motivational differences between male and female respondents [50]. The Poisson regression model indicated that male visitors generally showed neutral emotion in their selfies, while female visitors showed a positive contribution to the expressional emotion.…”

Section: The Gender Effect On Facial Expressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…By the general social characteristics of men and women, male visitors may experience more stress than female visitors, which resulted in the tendency of less happy expressions on their faces though they were standing in the restorative setting. Male visitors tended to show a natural expression on their faces, which were less likely to be posed than females [50]. In addition, a restorative forest effect was characterized by groups of trees by Jiang et al, who found that men can perceive discomfort in response to heavy tree density while women do not realize this stress [51].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Facial Expressions of Visitors in Forests along the Urbanization Gradient: What Can We Learn from Selfies on Social Networking Services?

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Hauer

Chen

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People’s satisfaction towards the experience in forests is one of most important feedbacks that forest park managers need to meet positive visitors’ experiences. Although the drawbacks of questionnaire methodology are obvious for data collection from self-reported scores at the landscape scale, few alternative methods have been proposed. In this study, nine urban forest parks along the urbanization gradients in three capital cities of Northeast China were targeted to investigate their visitors’ selfies from social networking services (SNS) by assessing facial expressions. A total of 935 photos with location records were obtained from the SNS platform of Sina Micro-Blog in a social hot-event of ‘Golden Week Holidays of National Day of China’ of 2017. Images were recognized by FireFace software to assess scores of neutral, happy, sad, angry, surprised, scared, disgusted, and contempt expressions. Data were ranked in descending order and analyzed by Friedman’s test, correlation analysis, and Poisson regression. Visitors in downtown-forests showed fewer negative expressions at the most northern city than at the southern most one. The negative expressions tended to be alleviated with the increasing distance of forest parks from downtown. However, when the distance reached over 10 km no geographical effect was found. Female visitors showed positive emotional expressions to urban forests while male visitors showed no response. In conclusion, using data from SNS, this study found an experience in forest park less than 10 km from the downtown of a northern city resulted in female visitors showing the most positive expressions.

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Section: The Gender Effect On Facial Expressionmentioning

confidence: 64%

Section: The Gender Effect On Facial Expressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Gender Effect On Facial Expressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Facial Expressions of Visitors in Forests along the Urbanization Gradient: What Can We Learn from Selfies on Social Networking Services?

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Hauer

Chen

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“…There is not just one interpretation of this phenomenon (Tifentale & Manovich, 2015) since they are "digital self-portrait(s)" (Shah & Tewari, 2016) that can be conceptualized as a "cultural artifact and social practice" that not only represents a subject but also sends a message (Senft & Baym, 2015). Since they are taken with a networked camera (Tifentale & Manovich, 2015), they are conceived for personal consumption and sharing: "By sharing their selfies, Instagram users construct their identities and simultaneously express their belonging to a certain community.…”

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Images of Breastfeeding on Instagram: Self-Representation, Publicness, and Privacy Management

Locatelli

2017

Social Media + Society

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As recent feminist studies have recognized, breastfeeding is an interesting area of investigation since it encompasses several social and cultural issues involving both the private and the public sphere. These range from how motherhood is lived and interpreted, the representation of the body, how children are reared, women’s self-representation, breastfeeding support, and maternal work. The article illustrates a qualitative analysis of a sample of Instagram images tagged with breastfeeding-related words, with the aim of analyzing how breastfeeding is represented and the relationship between private and public discourses. For this reason, images coming from both mothers and breastfeeding promoters were analyzed. The analysis shows that breastfeeding representation on Instagram confirms, and also goes beyond, the common image of breastfeeding a newborn, showing toddlers’ breastfeeding or mothers pumping breastmilk. It also shows that breastfeeding may be connected with a wider approach to parenthood, based on proximity, and that children are active subjects of the decisions taken. The research indicates that the relationship between public and private discourses is an overlapping of shades. On one hand, research results showed several strategies enacted by parents for protecting their children’s privacy; on the other hand, the functions of images posted veer between fixing a private moment and creating public discourses using specific hashtags aimed, for example, at normalizing public breastfeeding or offering new types of support. Instagram appears, then, as a platform where personal choices and beliefs can flow into public discourse and a place for investigating how public discourses and social and cultural issues (such as breastfeeding promotion and representation) shape the way that breastfeeding is lived.

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“…Researchers had started incorporating selfie taking intentions along with posting intentions on social media. However, the questions which were asked to the participants had framed selfie taking and posting together as a combined activity (Holiday et al, 2016 ; Shah and Tewari, 2016 ; Yue et al, 2017 ). This paper argues that selfie taking activity (the present study termed as “offline” selfie activity) needs to be studied separately from posting activity.…”

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Exploring Factors Behind Offline and Online Selfie Popularity Among Youth in India

Srivastava¹,

Upadhaya²,

Sharma

et al. 2018

Front. Psychol.

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“The Selfie Culture,” practiced globally, is gaining popularity with each passing day. Owing to its ubiquitous fame across the globe, it becomes essential to inquire the grounds for such worldwide recognition. In few years, it also became the center of attraction among researchers and previous studies had recognized two important aspects of selfie: first, why is selfie posting on social media is increasing day by day and second, who choose to involve more frequently in selfie posting behavior on social media? However, these studies focused only on its online popularity on various social media platforms but did not pay much attention on its offline popularity among selfie takers. In addition to this, the multifaceted sides of selfie which may make it different from other pictures and might also play an important role in its popularity in both offline and online platforms remained unexplored. The present study addressed this gap and explored two important aspects of selfie related behavior, First, it emphasized the significance of understanding the user's conception of selfie and second, it explored the determining factors behind both offline (taking) and online (posting) modes of the practice. 60 college going students (44 females and 16 males) living in Delhi, India participated in the study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and qualitative thematic analysis was used to cull out the themes. The results showed five factors (looks good, keeping memories, mood driven, mirroring the self and posting on social media) behind selfie offline (taking) involvement. Further, the online (posting) selfie popularity had been driven by three factors (social approval, being the best among the rest, to maintain online presence). Participants' popularity of selfie usage in both offline and online modes advocates the need to explore the offline selfie involvement of selfie takers in future research. The study also extended the existing conceptualization of selfie phenomenon which could help to unravel its wide popularity among its users.

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Demystifying ‘selfie’: a rampant social media activity

Cited by 28 publications

References 4 publications

Facial Expressions of Visitors in Forests along the Urbanization Gradient: What Can We Learn from Selfies on Social Networking Services?

Facial Expressions of Visitors in Forests along the Urbanization Gradient: What Can We Learn from Selfies on Social Networking Services?

Images of Breastfeeding on Instagram: Self-Representation, Publicness, and Privacy Management

Exploring Factors Behind Offline and Online Selfie Popularity Among Youth in India

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