[Commlist] New book: Selfies and the Filtered Face

*New Book: _Towards a Sociology of Selfies: The Filtered Face_*
This book examines selfies as a relational and processual networked 
social practice, performed between people within digital contexts and 
that involve online/offline intersections and tensions. It offers an 
analysis of selfies through a rich and interdisciplinary framework, that 
explores the ritualized and affective engagements selfies provoke from 
others. Given that selfies by definition are shared and posted through 
networked platforms, they complicate notions of traditional photographic 
self-portraiture. As such, this book explores how selfies invoke 
broader, stratified patterns of looking that are occluded in discourses 
of "empowerment" and "visibility", as well as the subjectivities these 
networked practices work to produce.
Drawing on extensive qualitative research conducted over a period of 
three years, this book questions not only what selfies are but what they 
do, they worlds they create, the imaginaries that organize them, and the 
flows of desire, affect and normativity that underpin them, questions 
that can only be addressed through research that closely attends to the 
experience of selfie-takers. It will be of interest across Sociology, 
Cultural studies, Communications, Visual Studies, Social Media studies, 
Feminist research and Affect Theory.

*Available at:* 
https://www.routledge.com/Towards-a-Sociology-of-Selfies-The-Filtered-Face/Cambre-Lavrence/p/book/9780367188115# 
<https://www.routledge.com/Towards-a-Sociology-of-Selfies-The-Filtered-Face/Cambre-Lavrence/p/book/9780367188115#>
Review copies available

*Table of Contents*
_Part I: Defining and Theorizing Selfie practice_
1. Introduction 　
2. Mechanics: Method and Analysis
3. This is Not a Like: Selfies as Social Practice 　
4. "Do I Look Like My Selfie?" Filters & the Digital-Forensic Gaze
_Part II: Affect and Gender_
5. Becoming Digital She-Objects: From the Double to… 　
6. Soft Boys, Chads, and Fuckboys: Performing Selfie Masculinities　
7. As-if Happy: The "Forced Positive" and Post(ing)-fun　
_Part III: Digital Constraints and Contexts_
8. "Saturatedly Perfect": Staring Down the Hegemonic Gaze
9. Hashtags and the Optics of Optimization　
10. Algorithmic Sociality: It’s Not a Bug it’s a Feature 　
11. Conclusion: Selfies and the Ends of Photography　


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