Selfie and the notion of 'the gaze'

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L’enfer c’est les autres. (Hell it’s the others) How the modern day selfie is negotiating the notion of the “male gaze”

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Gaze was always about how the other saw us. The Selfie modality interrupts that classical view and creates a power shift.

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L’enfer c’est les autres. (Hell it’s the others)

How the modern day selfie

is negotiating the notion of the

“male gaze”

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We don’t know if

Einstein did

indeed choose to

be remembered

like this…BUT

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Miley Cyrus

definitely does

want this image

of her to stick

around in our

minds (at least in the here and now )

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From

How you see me 2

How I want you to see me

Power shifts @play

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So … is the Selfie

The I in my head The I , I want you

to see

The I , I think you will like /approve of

A new I

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But where does

that leave the

traditional

Story?

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And what does it do to

the notion of the

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But is it about shared

vision

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Does it give birth to an

Inspired from the Stockholm syndrome

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Hmmm

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I my myself You yours yourself

Separate from me

Appended to me

Historically the notion of gaze

Selfie gaze

For women – the u turn

sharpest

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Finding connections where seemingly none exist.