Kwartaalbeoordeling
1. What is the theme I am investigating? Why is this
relevant?
OurSelfie. Communicating through selfies, they have
taken over the internet. Every major social media site is
overflowing with millions of them.
Selfies are either the latest form of
self-expression. A way of expressing
yourself and putting yourself in a light that you can control.” There
are numerous theories about the negative and / or positive impact of the ''so-called-
selfie madness.''
In this visual culture, the selfie quickly and easily shows,
not tells, how you’re feeling, where you are, what you’re doing.
We noticed in our own environment that some people are
so busy with profiling themself that they completely overlook 'the moment’ they
want to capture. If you only have a good day when you get a certain numbers of
likes on that forced but conscious selfie and your using this to ensure your
self-esteem, then it has become an obsession. Like the Danny Bowman
who was constantly in search of taking the perfect selfie and when he
realized he couldn’t he wanted to die.
2. How does this relate to the body, identity, and
technology? Defend the relevancy.
What do we want to show in our selfie? What do we want
others to see? How exactly do we want people to view us?
We associate selfies mostly with faces, but that
doesn’t have to be. How far can you stretch out your arm to capture a big part
of yourself? The belfie for example: bottom selfie
There's a
rapidly growing preference for online conversations that prioritize images over
words. Why text “I’m happy” when you could post a picture of your smiling
face?
Clearly, there is a symbiosis
between smartphones, social media and selfies. Almost all smartphones have
front-facing cameras, which is designed to take pictures of
ourselves,” Some people say that by studying your own selfies, you
know with which look and attitude you look the best, and so it becomes second
nature to adjust your facial expression in the ‚’real'' world.
A selfie among else can function as a means of
self-expression, a construction of a positive image, a tool of self-promotion,
a cry for attention and love, a way to express belonging to a certain community.
The selfie has become so dominant a form, it may even
be shaping technology, because many products have been developed, in order to
make selfies better. When you feel the
urge to become an image, you can, with little effort and almost no
consequences. It gives control. It gives release. It can be a
way to control others images of us.
3. What is my research question? Why is this relevant?
How can the use of ‘selfies’ into material patterns confront one’s
concept of self representation?
If a picture paints a thousand words, then what about
a selfie? Is a selfie is an "instant" depiction
of the self? Selfies are mirrors which we can capture, but sharing those
’mirrors’’ is done primarily online. We want to capture ourself in every
possible way with our smartphone. What will happen if we create a pattern of
selfies and bring this in public space? By means of making the selfies
wearable. We retain control in what we want to show in the pictures. We want to
try out all conceivable selfies.
the virtual-mini-me
becomes the analog mini-me-
- were gonna
explore this way of representing ourselves to others, but of communicating with
one another through images. would we ever get enough of or selfie?
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how will people react when you’re walking with you’re
selfie all the time?, instead of staying on your phone or online, we take them
into the physical world.
4. How am I
structuring my research? Why is this relevant?
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organizing our thoughts and collected information
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research plan
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experimenting (We don’t want to lose ourself in all
the data)
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prototypes
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designs
• shshowing
the designs in public space
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reflection
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conclusions
relevant because
otherwise it’s going to be a mess.
5. What tools or
methods could I/will I use to conduct my research? How are these relevant?
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experimenting: keeping control of what we want to show
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prototyping & implementation
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with the final design we want to see how other people
will react and thus we hope we can answer our research question.
Feedback lizet & thelma
Good intro – clear question clear topic
Urgent of relevance is well answered
Pity that you don’t have experiments and that the plan isn’t clear
Putting down your actions, what are you going to do to actively produce?
If you are not enthusiastic selfie makers, why would you use yourself for the end product?
You can use someone who is an selfie addict
Give yourself some plan/restriction, make a selfie every day or every 10 min for 1 week.
Pick three different things, now to brought because of the amount of all the different selfie types.
Explore a few of the options, every week another one, so you can get a lot of information.
