Who would have thought that taking a simple picture of yourself could cause so many problems for a person both for the people around themselves? According to an article written by Kate Murphy of the New York Times, selfies do just that; bring out the worst in us. In her article, it discusses about how selfies are a safety hazard as well as a hazard to your personal character. Selfie sticks are such a big safety hazard that the article states that places such as Disney Land, Roman Colosseum, Palace of Versailles, and the Sydney Opera House of put a strict ban on them. Countries such as Russia have simply made them out right illegal. Therefore, a government safety committee should investigate the safety problems of selfie sticks in America.
The purpose of this article is to bring awareness to people on how big of a problem selfies are in the world right now. There have been numerous instants of people causing injury or death to themselves just to get into a good position for a photo. The author also discusses about how selfie sticks because terrible personality traits in people. Much of the research on selfies reveal that (surprise!) people who take a lot them tend to have narcissistic, psychopathic and Machiavellian personality traits- which may explain why they are oblivious when they bonk you on the head with their selfie sticks. (Murphy). The author then discusses how selfies can give oneself a sense of belong and therefore give a person an addiction for more “likes” in social media sites like Facebook. More, studies show that regular users of social media tend to score lower on measures of belonging and meaningful existence if they are precluded from posting content and feel ostracized if they don’t get “likes” (the digital version of thumbs up) when they do post content. The author also talks about how people give more approval to those who “Like” there selfies on social media. Just a few months after secretly deploying his app, Mr. Chawla discovered 50 percent more people were following him on Instagram, and that he was also getting more invitations to parties and business opportunities. Instagr
There you are holding your camera an arm’s length away from your face, posing in the most flattering position to capture your best angle. There you are taking a photo of yourself to share with all of your Facebook friends. Taking a self-portrait photo, also known as a selfie, is something almost everyone has done in this new generation. This action is typically done without a second thought. In Alex Williams’ article “Here I Am Taking My Own Picture” that second thought is provoked through exploring the quickly spreading trend of self-portrait photography. In the article while Williams’ provides interesting examples on a changing generation as this trend progresses through social media and modern technology; Williams also leaves something to be desired within the article due to a lack of direction in the author’s stance on the topic.
In the article “What Your Selfies Say About You” by Peggy Drexler, she talks about self-portraits also known as the “selfie”, and how it has taken over social media and added a manifestation to society’s obsession with looks. Taking a self-portrait can be positive in the sense that you are proud of your image and are not scared to share it with others helping boost up your self-esteem. Although this may help others by persuading them to not be ashamed to share their true image, Drexler believes this can also affect other individuals whose focus is only on looks making them feel self-conscious about their looks. A recent study out of the UK found that the selfie phenomenon may be damaging to real world relationships, concluding that both excessive
Although it is not to say the people of color do not engage in casual sex, but rather that greater hookup culture on average college campuses represents a classist, eurocentric, racist, ableist, and heteronormative system that marginalizes a wide range of students. This social hierarchy rooted in exclusion is a self-perpetuating cycle that often times goes undiscussed, and uncriticized. The author engages with these issues, however, there is definite room for more on the nature of involuntary exclusion in this culture.
As the credits roll we see the blinds of a three-pane window slowly being lifted up, after they finish the camera moves forward revealing to our gaze the reality on the other side of the open window. It faces the back of many other buildings, the courtyard they enclose, and a sliver view of the backstreet. More importantly, it faces many other windows just like it. Behind each one of those there are people, going about their day, doing mundane tasks, unaware of being observed. In his 1954 movie “Rear Window” Alfred Hitchcock invites us to engage in the guilt free observation of the lives of others. The main character, photographer L. B. Jefferies, is home stuck with a broken leg encased in a cast that goes all the way to his hip, providing the perfect excuse for him to amuse himself in this hot Manhattan summer by engaging in the seemly harmless act of looking into the many windows he can see from his back apartment. Casual, harmless, voyeurism has been part of the human behavior for ages but in the sixty years since the movie was released it has gained increasing traction. Reality television, Movies, TV shows, YouTube, blogging, Instagram and Facebook are examples of modern tools that allow us to engage in the observation of others while remaining protectively hidden from their returning gaze. In its essence the casual voyeuristic actions we engage in while observing others when using these new media tools follows the same pattern of behavior described in the movie, with the same positive and negative consequences. Casual voyeurism distinguishes itself from pathological voyeurism, which is characterized by a preference in obtaining sexual gratification only from spying others, by the removal of the sexual component from the equat...
Although Rachel Simmons in “ Selfies Are Good for Girls” and Erin Ryan in “ Selfies Aren’t Empowering. They’re a Cry for Help”, both agree selfies can show accomplishments. However, Simmons believes selfies are a way for young women to boost their pride whereas Ryan defines them as a way to gain social approval confirmation. Simmons believes selfies are empowering, and increase self-confidence levels of young women. According to Simmons “selfie is a tiny pulse of girl pride - a shout-out to the self (P4)”. In other word, she believes self-portrait gives teenage girls an outlet to express pride within themselves. She explains how selfie not only express pride, it is also a way for young women to share their accomplishments, as shown in the
If we stay so wrapped up in technology we can miss very important things that are happening around us.In the article “Can the Selfie Generation Unplug and Get into Parks?” Jonathan Jarvis says that “young people are more separated from the natural world than perhaps any generation before
Security cameras have become very widespread. These cameras are harmful to one’s safety and privacy. Security and surveillance cameras are both invasions of privacy
Users are constantly bombarded with notifications, posts, and photos about the lives of others; sending messages about what we could, should, or would be if we only purchased certain products, made certain choices, or engaged in certain behaviors. Despite the ability to create and control content on social media, the same unattainable body ideals we see in traditional media are also reflected in the online environment. Based on a survey, 56% of women acknowledged the effect of the social media culture in driving the pressure for perfection and negative body image; whereby it forces them to look a certain way. Applications such as Instagram have become a body-image battleground, while the selfie is now the universal lens in which individuals use to criticize their bodies and others. Facebook and Snapchat also allow users to receive appearance approvals and acceptance from the viewers through the ratio of views, comments, and likes. In America, the dieting industry earns roughly 40 billion dollars per year at the expense of
...onal privacy dead?” brings up many other questions along with it. But there is no doubt that the government is doing all of what they are doing for safety reasons. They claim to want to make the United States as safe as possible, and this has proved to ring true in many situations. But now the inevitable new question becomes: How far is too far? Is safety more important than privacy? To know these answers, one must ask themselves and know their own opinion on the situation. But whatever their answers may be, and despite the multiple other questions that are brought up along with the topic of personal privacy, there is still one thing that is known for sure: personal privacy is dead. And unless the use of technology becomes less critical to the United States, personal privacy will always be dead. The bigger the role technology has; the less personal privacy there is.
Since the term paparazzi was coined, they have become worst then mosquitoes, from taking series and illegal risks, to costing lives. The first major paparazzi related accident happened in 1...
Victoria, Woollaston. "Selfies Are 'damaging' and Leave Young People Vulnerable to Abuse, Claims Psychologist." Mail Online. Associated Newspapers, 23 Aug. 2013. Web. 23 Jan. 2014.
Ever since selfies started trending, this generation started caring only about how their pictures turned out. People nowadays stop everything they may be doing to capture the perfect selfie. Selfie sticks were also recently created to add more to this silly picture. After this trend, many apps came out to edit and perfect ones selfie. Eventually, these apps may lead to over editing and maybe even towards younger people. Teens stop focusing on school work and more on how to keep their online audience entertained. In fact, it has become sort of a competition to see who has the lost Instagram followers or likes on our selfies.
Upon the advent of social networking websites, an entirely new level of self-expression was formed. People instantly share updates on their lives with family, friends, and colleagues, reconnecting with those they had lost contact with. Social networking has now become an integral part of contemporary society – a modern analog for catching up with friends over slow, conventional methods or finding upcoming events in newspapers. However, along with this freedom of information, the danger of revealing too much personal information has become apparent. As such, online social media poses an imminent danger to society as it blurs the line between private and public information, creating an obsession with sharing one’s personal life online.
In earlier times, it was much easier to keep your business to yourself, but with the increase in journalism and increase in technology, it has become progressively harder to keep your privacy. Included in the advances of technology, the first handheld camera, which was lighter than the outdated studio cameras, was introduced by Eastman Kodak. Through the debut of the camera, this allowed common people to start taking pictures, pictures of whatever they wanted. There was no issue when cameras first came out, because no one thought about the issues that could arise. Speaking on journalism, this modern outlet also provided a way to show people across the country what was happening in a different location
...twelve actors at the oscars awards was the worlds most rewetted photograph in the world, with stars like Meryl Streep, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Lupita Nyong’o and Brad Pitt, received more than 921,000 retweets in less than 40 minutes[__]. It went on to get more than two million retweets by the end of the ceremony, now with 3.4 million [__] and still counting. Not only dose this show the power of social networks, it also shows the craze of the phenomenon of the selfie. The nature of traditional portraiture is to capture something enduring about the person, the essence of the subject. The selfie is very different, it's about capturing the nature of a moment. They are not meant to last, to linger in the memory in the same way.