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Fairy tales of the future? This is Horte right now! #selfiestick! :) #Selfie #ProfilePic
The Psychology of Selfies & A Handmade Pinhole Camera
We learned this week that the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year is selfie, the informal noun defined as “a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.” It was added to the Oxford Dictionary Online (not the Oxford English Dictionary), which bases its entries on current and practical word usage, meaning they can be removed when they are out of use.
Blog posts about the psychology of the selfie abound. It’s a cheap fad. It’s a an evaluator of social reach. It’s a modern iteration of the self-portrait fueled by a hunger for social feedback. It’s a reflection of our loneliness and desire for image control. And on and on.
And then there is this.
Photographer Tatiano Altberg teaches children in a Rio de Janeiro favela how to make pinhole cameras out of recycled cans. There is no viewfinder and no button. They learn to create narratives through their photos, and to take self-portraits.
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But unlike the countless “selfies” they were already used to seeing on social networks, these forced them to be more introspective, considering both their mood and environment.
“The challenge of working with pinhole photography is to make the self-portrait a process of reflection about one’s self — a product of an intention,” she said. “The idea is not to take photos in an automatic way, with poses and gestures that are seen in the pictures teenagers take with their cellphones and digital cameras. It’s necessary to pay attention to the surroundings and think before making an image. Pinhole is a slow process of creation that demands a lot of thought.”
The payoff has come with students who have become excited about the possibilities of self-expression. Jailton Nunes was a skeptical 12-year-old when he started the workshop, deflecting any compliment with jokes. But over time, he came to embrace the project, and a self-portrait of his was used on the cover of “Everyday My Thoughts Are Different,” which was published this year.
“Another photo taken by him that is very significant is the one where he appears beside a miniature sofa,” Ms. Altberg said. “He looks like a giant. The image has special symbolic meaning since he was explicitly self-conscious about his height, something that diminished throughout the year as he gained confidence.”
FJP: Here’s a thought. For young teens who live busy lives in crowded spaces (Rio or elsewhere) that are then compounded by an abundance of digital imagery in online social worlds, it’s difficult to find the space to know yourself, to construct an image of yourself for yourself and to capture that image. In a sense, the digital selfie is a way to try to create and preserve a controllable record of who you are in an otherwise uncontrollable world of too many records. It’s a very human need. If we look at it that way, the potential for teaching projects like Altberg’s is enormous.—Jihii
Image: Yasmin Lopez, via Brazilian Stories and Selfies Through a Pinhole, NY Times.
Auf der 9. DJV-Konferenz "Besser Online" für Freie Journalisten und Journalistinnen am 24.9. in Mainz leitete ich das Panel "Selbstmarketing für Journalisten" mit meinem Vortrag "7 Tipps um besser online gefunden zu werden" ein. Für Torial habe ich den Vortrag verbloggt. Bitte hier entlang klicken.
Das Twitter-Profil ist ab sofort sehr viel einfacher zu aktualisieren: die Beautyfzierung der Kopfzeile, des Profilbilds und der Bio-Texte funktioniert jetzt direkt von der Twitter-Profilseite aus.
Da hat Twitter wohl zuviel Schwarz gesehen: Header, Profilbild und Bio sind ab sofort viel einfacher zu aktualisieren.
Und was machen Sie so beruflich? fragte Wibke Ladwig in ihrer Blogparade - und ist damit bei jetzt.de gelandet.
Ich habe mich berufsbedingt spontan ein wenig verliebt.
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Letzte Abenteuer, Relevanzkriterien und etwas Wikipedia-Glück
Mein erster Wikipedia-Artikel und einige Gedanken drumherum.
Am vergangenen Montag startete die Social Media Week in Hamburg in die zweite Runde und bot über 160 verschiedene Events, Panels, Workshops, Photowalks, Meet-Ups und mehr, verteilt über die ganze Stadt. Dabei merkt man dann gleich auch mal wieder, dass Hamburg doch keineswegs so klein ist, wie...
Kommenden Montag geht es los: Social Media Week Hamburg! Ich bin mit zwei Themen dabei, zumindest für den Vortrag gibt es zur Zeit noch Plätze.
Erstklassige Tipps für Autoren- und Autorinnenbilder.
Wir Digital Media Women richten zur Social Media Week Hamburg einen Tag an der ADWH mit vielen Workshops aus! Meiner zu Tumblr ist zur Zeit ausgebucht, aber vermutlich bewegt sich noch etwas.
Wer noch ein paar Geschenktipps sucht: Hier etwas für Menschen, die zuviel vor dem Bildschirm sitzen (Sachen machen von Isabel Bogdan), für Menschen, die etwas zu selten vorm Bildschirm sitzen, aber Nachwuchs haben, der das sehr häufig tut (Netzgemüse von Haeusler und Haeusler). Und dann noch was für Leib und Seele (Schlaraffenland von Stevan Paul und Suna von Pia Ziefle). Frohes Fest!
Mit etwas gutem Willen lassen sich also durchaus Wege finden, die eine pseudonyme Nutzung ermöglichen, ohne dabei die Missbrauchsrisiken zu erhöhen.
Peter Schaar // Realnamenspflicht bei Facebook und das Recht auf Anonymität
Dirk von Gehlens neues Buch "Eine neue Version ist verfügbar" wird per crowdfunding über http://www.startnext.de/neueversion finanziert. Einige der Unterstützer wurden für das EnViv-Blog interviewt, ich hatte das Vergnügen dabei zu sein.
Wer kennt dieses Problem nicht?
Das Profilfoto vs. getaggte Fotos
Das Digitale Quartett über Digitale Identitäten, den Klout-Score und Kommentare im Journalismus: Ulrike Langer diskutierte mit Christian Jakubetz, Franziska Bluhm, Daniel Fiene und mir. Ich hatte meinen Spaß!