Bringing sexy back: Reclaiming the body aesthetic via self-shooting
Abstract
This paper is based on visual narrative analysis of cyber-ethnographic material from a 2.5 year field-research with ‘not safe for work’ [NSFW] bloggers and self-shooters on tumblr.com. I use Koskela’s concept of ‘empowering exhibitionism’, Waskul’s ‘erotic looking glass’, and Foucault’s ‘technologies of the self’ to analyze self-shooting (taking photos of one-self). Constricting societal norms of sexuality, body shape and body practices...
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Title
Bringing sexy back: Reclaiming the body aesthetic via self-shooting
Published Date
Mar 1, 2014
Journal
Volume
8
Issue
1
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