Over the past decade, selfies have become a mainstay of popular culture. If the #selfie hashtag first appeared in 2004, it was the release of the iPhone 4 in 2010 that saw the pictures go viral. Three years later, the Oxford ...
Social Sciences
Mar 30, 2021
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Who would have thought that millennials' polished selfies at the beach or #nofilter photos of themselves would influence how companies are marketing their products on various social media platforms?
Social Sciences
Sep 5, 2019
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Selfies, which have become a global sensation in the last decade or so, have remarkably killed five times more people than shark attacks.
Other
Jun 27, 2019
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Long dismissed as a symptom of narcissistic youth culture, the not-so-humble selfie has become big business.
Business
Jun 27, 2019
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The rapid evolution of social media platforms has left their uses, and users, in a constant state of transition. In many research fields, analyzing data involving social media can be a daunting task—it is difficult to measure ...
Social Sciences
Apr 8, 2019
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At some point, when I was writing my new book, 'Selfies, why we love (and hate) them,' I walked around the Katrinebjerg halls at Aarhus University, Denmark, and asked people if they'd play a word association game with me.
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May 28, 2018
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The phenomenon of kangaroo selfies hit the headlines earlier this month, when several tourists were injured while feeding wild kangaroos in Lake Macquarie, north of Sydney. They may have wanted a memorable holiday snap, but ...
Ecology
May 14, 2018
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Social media provides a new environment that makes it possible to carefully edit the image you want to project of yourself. A study from Lund University in Sweden suggests that many people are prepared to pay to "filter out" ...
Economics & Business
Mar 15, 2018
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You can now add web links to Snaps, a feature many had requested to Snapchat over the years.
Internet
Jul 10, 2017
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You do it. Your mom, dad, siblings and friends probably do too. World leaders and entertainers do it—though some better than others. Your friend did it on her vacation last week and you gave her a thumbs-up.
Social Sciences
Jan 10, 2017
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