2. Selfies are a digital self portrait
Picture by Joey Yee (Flickr)
3. Selfies are a way of documenting and keeping track of
our lives
Photo by Visual Diary (Flickr)
4. There is a primal human urge to stand outside of ourselves
and look at ourselves
We leave them as traces for others to find
Photo by Clever Cupcakes (Flickr)
5. Our faces act as the caption to what we try to say in a
Selfie
The Selfie acts as the medium and we are the message
Photo by Steve Malpass (Flickr)
6. Dopamine Squirt…
We get excited when someone “likes” or “shares” our
Selfies Photo by xorsyst (flickr)
7. We have grown to enjoy the world more by
inserting ourselves into it Photo by Faruk Ates (Flickr)
8. Photo by Alec Couros (Flickr)
We prefer online conversations that revolve around
images and photos
Snapchat, Facetime, and Skype all gives us the ability
to see our own faces
9. Photo by Vishal Kandpur (Flickr)
Selfies are also popular because they allow for users to
change their appearance
This gives people the opportunity to chose how they
are perceived by others
10. Phones and other digital devices all allow us to take
Selfies Photo by Alfredo Caceres (Flickr)
12. Photo by Steven Truong (Flickr)
There are songs inspired by the Selfie phenomenon
#SELFIE is a popular song by the DJ due The
Chainsmokers
13. Photo by Daniel Go (Flickr)
Selfies have even inspired TV shows such as ABC’s
Selfie which will premiere in 2015
14. Photo by Twitter Vine App (Flickr)
Vine originally didn’t have the front facing camera…
Once they added it, users loved it and made more
creative vines with their faces
15. Photo by ONE-BH (Flickr)
More than 50 million snaps are sent everyday
Majority of these snaps are selfies
16. There are some negative effects caused by Selfies
Photo by Donncha O Caoimh (Flickr)
17. We interrupt experience to
mark the moment
We put those around us
on pause
Photo by Eric Verdaasdonk (Flickr)
18. Selfies can be linked to narcissism and obsession with
beauty and body image Photo by Cunumi (Flickr)
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Photo by Christian Bueno (Flickr)
We rely on others’ perceptions, judgments, and
appraisals to develop our social self
20. We become obsessed with this connected world…
We end up alone together
Photo by Moyan Brenn (Flickr)
21. Digital Overload: How we are seduced by distraction
By Erin Anderssen, Globe and Mail, Mar 29th 2014
The Flight From Conversation
By Sherry Turkle, The New York Times, April 21st
The Documented Life
By Sherry Turkle, The New York Times, Dec 13th, 2013
My Selfie, Myself
By Jenna Wortham, The New York Times, Oct 19th 2013
Why Snapchat is Valuable: It’s All About Attention
By: Danah Boyd, LinkedIn,
The Social Psychology of the Selfie
By: Christine Erikson, Mashable
Photo by nessa teran iturralde (flickr)
