Hey Terri, Not EXACTLY what you are looking for but very close: Paula Uimonen (2013) Visual identity in Facebook, Visual Studies, 28:2, 122-135, DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2013.801634 Abstract: Seeing your friends in Facebook has become a common means of social interaction, illustrating a visual turn in digital media in general and social media in particular. This article explores visual identity in Facebook, focusing on the use of profile photographs in the performance of digitally mediated selfhood. In Facebook, relationships are increasingly communicated through images, thus rendering the interactive reflexivity of performance rather visible. Based on the profile photographs of students at an arts college in Tanzania, the article discusses the construction of cultural identities through visual communication. By visually expressing their selves through profile photographs, users engage in the social construction of reality, crafting their digitally mediated identities in interaction with their online social relations. The online performance of selfhood is analysed in the context of offline social and material realities, to underline cultural aspirations for global inclusion. Building on anthropological readings of performance, the concept of social aesthetic frame is introduced to capture patterns of digital stratification that encompass the online construction of networked selfhood in the peripheries of the global network society. The article builds on anthropological research on digital media and intercultural interaction at a national arts institute in Tanzania, using a combination of digital, sensory and visual research methods. On 2/9/14 5:34 PM, "Terri Senft" <tsenft@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All,
While putting together the Selfies Research Network, I find myself at a complete loss for names of researchers who have studied mobile photography practices in Africa.
Anybody have names of authors or articles that come to mind?
Better yet, if you are a scholar studying these practices yourself, we'd love to have you join our international group.
Feel free to drop me a line personally, and our Facebook group is at:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292
Many thanks! Terri -- <http://goog_689013053>
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