237.130 // Assessment 2 // Semester 1 // Wk 6 // Task // Essay Topic Research // Youtube- Selfies - a visual analysis: Elizabeth Urbanski at TEDxNavesink // 21/4/16
The topic of this video is the “selfie”. For me, it raises the question of what are each individuals perceptions and opinions on the term and how do they contrast or compare with one another. What drives people to create certain selfies with these choreographed instantaneous facial expressions and these trends such as “the duck face”. The relevant ideas in this video such as on how it is the most modern way we have of people showing images of themselves, and how individuals release the video for global consumption, the characteristics of a selfie and the contrast of old self-portraits to these ones can be integrated into my essay through the use of historical shift in identity and the self-portrait which is a part of the chosen question that needs to be included in the essay regardless. I think the issues of the “selfie” are important for designers to think about as it exposes society’s desires and what they are wanting in todays modern world. As designers you are meeting the publics desires when designing for them and these issues that matter to them need to be addressed. I am now more informed about this subject in many ways. Including the processes and characteristics of the “selfie”, the old self-portraits being seen through the artists eye where as now “everyone is the artist” ( Elizabeth Urbanski, Selfies - a visual analysis), the use of expression of power and how individuals can still perceive these images despite them being taken out of their context.