Selfies – WISHCRYS

MeituXiuxiu, Cultural diffusion, and Asia Exotica

This week my social media feeds have been flooded with […]

Procrastiprogress updates from the cave II.

Moshimoshi folks! Continuing from March’s newly minted tradition of procrastiprogress updates from the cave, I bring you more condensed scholarly updates from wishcrys land.

Internet culture

Selfie fashion

As a young responsible adult, I spent all of this morning procrastinating productively. As a selfie researcher, I spent all of this morning procrastinating productively on selfie paraphernalia. So here’s […]

Influencers

March & April in Boras, Jönköping, Manchester.

Greetings, netizens of Böras, Jönköping, and Manchester! I’ll be heading […]

Influencers

March in Paris & Trondheim.

Moshimoshi, good people of Paris and Trondheim! Am passing through your city to talk about digital anthropology and smartphone anxiety, ‘cute’ Internet culture, and run a pedagogical workshop on selfie […]

Influencers

Fieldnotes: Body labour and selfies

“In the flesh, these microcelebrities seem to have mastered the practice of displaying their camera ready face – head slightly tilted to emphasize oneʼs chin and elongate the face; eyebrows slightly […]

Internet culture

In defence of the selfie

I recently had the privilege of speaking with Cassie McCullagh of ABC Radio National on selfie culture. We chatted about popular perceptions of selfies, and their productive potential in political […]

Influencers

Microcelebrity Social Media Selfies

Reflecting on Week three of The Selfie Course on selfies and microcelebrity, I thought I would share my take on the types of heterosexual feminine scripts microcelebrity social media personalities in […]

Academica Dramatica

Academica Dramatica x Professionalism

Used a selfie (haphazardly taken in the middle of a street while traveling because urgent) for officious institutional memorabilia: Check.

Teaching

Resources on selfies

This page is now being updated here: https://wishcrys.com/selfies/

Internet culture

IR15 Show Me Your Selfies: A Teaching Workshop

An international group of academics is facilitating a pre-conference workshop […]

Talks

Academica Dramatica x Meta Selfie.

Selfie presentations at conference. — Selfie before selfie presentations at conference. — Collage of selfies during presentation on selfies. — Selfie of presenters of selfie presentations after selfie stream of […]