Constructing Subjectivity: A Comparative Analysis of Self-Portraity and Selfie-Taking Practices

Student: Zubkova Valentina

Educational Programme: Visual Culture (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2018

In this paper, an attempt is made to analyze the existing cultural paradigm, a feeling system in which a phenomenon such as the Selfie-taking Practices appear. Within the framework of the work, a detailed analysis of the prerequisites for the appearance of this phenomenon, its main differences from a Self-Portraity in painting are indicated. There is also a thesis that the Selfie-taking Practices are not an efficacious way of constructing subjectivity.

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