Digital Expressions of the Self(ie): The Social Life of Selfies in India

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
	Figures
	Table
Author Biographies
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction: The digital self(ie) and world-making
	Framing the digital self
	Creative self-making
	Points of departure
	Note
	References
Chapter 2: Still/moving images: Performing masculinity and making place in Delhi’s “hotspots”
	Theoretical underpinnings, methodological detours
	Digital ethnography of place: A patchwork endeavour
	Action and romance: Performance towards mastery
	Some final thoughts: Making reels without politics
	Notes
	References
Chapter 3: Probing “instaworthiness”: Siting the selfie
	Placemaking and/in aesthete’s gaze
	Materiality, spatiality, and imageability
	Aesthetic of visual apartness
	Agential materialism and the visual outcome of selfie
	The thing-ness of the selfie
	Notes
	References
Chapter 4: Putting the selfie to work: Image making and work/time discipline in the margins of the Indian state
	Introduction
	Digitizing work/time discipline
	Informal networks of visibility in the margins of the hybrid state
	Images as evidence: putting the selfie to work
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 5: Posthumous selfie memory: Fan identities and the making of superstars
	Introduction
	Celebrity deaths in the age of death porn4
	Conceptualizing the posthumous selfie memory
	Methodology
	Data collection and analysis
		Phase 1
		Phase 2
	Findings and discussion
		Stars and fans: Death of stars, authentic fandom, and posthumous engagement online
		Insiders and Outsiders: Star kids and self-made stars
		The posthumous ordinary superstar: kinship networks, provincial middle classes, and success
	Conclusion
	Limitations
	Notes
	References
Chapter 6: Creating and curating the performing object
	The self in the social network
	Understanding self-making through content creation: Method and mode of inquiry
	Books and art as ways and windows to the self
		Bookstagram: Bookish communities as spaces of self-discovery
			Finding yourself in the company of people who read
			Fashioning and sustaining the bookish self
			Visibility and vulnerability
			Strategic presencing, stimulating engagement
		Inktober: The artistic community in the age of Instagram
			Positioning the artistic self
			Visibility, validation, and the critic within
			Discovering the new, within and without
			Archiving memories, curating meaning
	Discussion: Reflecting and revealing the self through a performing object
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Index