Selfie featured on Daily Mail website. A few months ago I wrote a blog post where I advanced the theory that selfies are a mimetic response to the rise of celebrity culture epitomised by Kim Kardiashian. The popularity of the selfie is thus inextricably linked to the popularity of the celebrity who uses the selfie…
Coca-Cola ad ‘Hello Happiness’, released 7th of May 2014 Coca-Cola has launched a new advertising campaign which features a ‘Hello Happiness Phone Booth’, a special phone booth that accepts Coca-Cola bottle caps instead of coins and which enables migrant workers in Dubai to connect to their family members in South Asia. Described by Coca-Cola as…
A typical Kim Kardashian Selfie, No. 1 image search result on Google.com for the keyword “selfie”, accurate in the UK as of 30 March 2014 In this post I want to deconstruct the ‘selfie’, not just as a type of image that is widely produced and shared across the world, but also as a philosophical…