Snapchat 'selfies': The case of disappearing data

Title
Snapchat 'selfies': The case of disappearing data
Publication Date
2014
Author(s)
Charteris, Jennifer
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1554-6730
Email: jcharte5@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jcharte5
Gregory, Sue
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0417-8266
Email: sgregor4@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:sgregor4
Masters, Yvonne
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1120-7950
Email: ymasters@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ymasters
Editor
Editor(s): Bronwyn Hegarty, Jenny McDonald, Swee-Kin Loke
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE)
Place of publication
Dunedin, New Zealand
UNE publication id
une:17616
Abstract
Little has been written about the impact of ephemeral messaging technologies such as Snapchat, Wickr and iDelete on learner identities. The authors explore how disappearing social media may enable young people to take up a range of discourses and demonstrate discursive agency in ways that support social mobility through shifting relationships with their peers. Much of this unfolds through the transmission of digital images that promote social flexibility. The visibility, of seeing and being seen, demonstrates a Foucauldian 'gaze' where power plays out through the capacity to be visible and recognisable to others and specific practices (e.g. selfies) become normalised. Social media technologies furnish emergent spaces for underlife activity that foster this gaze. Taking up the Foucault's concept of subjectivities as discursively constituted identity categories, the authors explore the relationship between disappearing media and youth identities.
Link
Citation
Rhetoric and Reality: Critical perspectives on educational technology. Proceedings of ascilite Dunedin 2014, p. 389-393
ISBN
9780473307509
Start page
389
End page
393

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