From the Self-Image to the Image Itself

Glimpse ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-22
Author(s):  
Martta Heikkilä ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
The Self ◽  
Philosophical Position ◽  
Phenomenological Philosophy ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Portrait Photographs ◽  
Important Position

In this article, I examine the idea of the portrait from two viewpoints: the ‘classical’ portrait as it appears in Jean-Luc Nancy’s post-phenomenological philosophy, and the recent self-portrait photographs or ‘selfies’ on social media. First, I consider the portrait’s value in Nancy’s theories of art: for him, portraits hold an important position among the genres of visual art, since they present themselves as distinctive images by extracting the innermost force of the portrayed person. Secondly, I take up the philosophical and political implications of Nancy’s notion of the portrait vis-a-vis the contemporary selfie culture. I suggest that, instead of emphasizing the model’s singularity as traditional artistic portraits do, the flow of selfies tends to create similarity. I begin by clarifying Nancy’s paradoxical claim that the human portrait may resemble a person only on the condition of not representing him or her. After this, I inquire about the philosophical position of selfies as constructed portraits that make visible the absence of the self. However, as I argue, they do this in a sense that differs from Nancy’s account of the portrait. As a result, I propose that the repetition and circulation of selfies has remarkably changed our view on the significance and, finally, the ontology of the portrait.

“Infecting” those we care about: social network effects on body image

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditi Grover ◽  
Jeffrey Foreman ◽  
Mardie Burckes-Miller
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Network Effects ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
The Self ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Thin Ideal ◽  
Effective Prevention ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Self Image

Purpose This paper aims to explore the forces at work that negatively influence the self-image perceptions of young women, causing them to strive for an “ultra-thin” ideal. Design/methodology/approach Focus groups explore why and how perceived self-image influences young women’s body and perceptions and, consequently, health. Thematic qualitative analysis explores the realm of information and emotions involved with the thin-ideal. Findings Social contagion theory emerged with a significant impact caused by network influencers and the spread of information and emotions within social networks forces that sustain the need to be ultra-thin, even though there is abundant knowledge about adverse effects. Research limitations/implications Future research should address limitations involving representativeness and generalizability. Practical implications Social marketing programs, including social media, should stress healthy eating habits while focusing on the importance of the self and de-emphasizing the “thin-ideal” image. Originality/value Results will assist in developing more informed and effective prevention programs, including social media campaigns, as preventative healthcare to reduce the risk of the spread of eating disorders and promote psychological health of at-risk young adults.

scholarly journals Detox Instagram Pada Self-Esteem Pengguna

Koneksi ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Lisa Harsono ◽  
Septia Winduwati
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Case Method ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Study Case ◽  
Concept Theory

Instagram is a platform that presents the self-image of someone. When users find out that using Instagram was toxic to their self-esteem, they decided to detox instagram by stopping using Instagram. This research’s purpose is to know the self-esteem’s user when doing detox Instagram. This research is based on self-concept theory, self-esteem theory, social media theory, Instagram theory, and the detox instagram phenomenon theory. This research is using a qualitative approach with a study case method for college students that stop using Instagram. Collecting data is done by deep interviews. The result in this research shows that when informants doing detox instagram, they appreciate themself, focus on upgrading their potential, and stop comparing their life to each other. Instagram merupakan platform yang menyajikan citra diri individu. Ketika penggunanya merasakan penggunaan Instagram menjadi toxic bagi self-esteem, maka pengguna memutuskan untuk melakukan deleting toxic (detox) Instagram dengan cara berhenti bermain Instagram. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui self-esteem pengguna ketika melakukan detox Instagram. Penelitian ini berlandaskan pada konsep diri, self-esteem, media sosial, Instagram dan fenomena detox Instagram. Penelitian dilakukan dengan pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode studi kasus pada mahasiswa yang berhenti bermain Instagram. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan wawancara mendalam. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa ketika informan melakukan detox Instagram, para informan merasa lebih menghargai diri sendiri, fokus kepada potensi yang dimilikinya, dan berhenti membanding-bandingkan diri dengan sesamanya.

scholarly journals Citra Diri dalam Instagram Jokowi

Koneksi ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 344
Author(s):  
Cindy Cindy ◽  
Wulan Purnama Sari
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Short Distance ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
The Self ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Times

Communication is one of the basic human basic needs in living life as a social creature. Along with the development of the times that there is technology developing until social media is very developed, one of which is developing social media is Instagram which is now present in the middle of the community. The community can use Instagram social media which is currently also as a media that can make everyone able to communicate both remotely and short distance. Instagram can also see how one's self-image in an existing social media like in a post on Instagram that can show someone's activities. One of them is Instagram owned by the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, who is fairly active on Instagram social media, despite having a very crowded activity. Jokowi also showed his image through every post uploaded on Instagram. President Joko Widodo is very active in uploading every post whether in political activities, family or even community activities. In this study, the author wants to find out how the attitude of a President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo on social media Instagram on society, family, and politics. The author will analyze each of Jokowi's posts from June to August to find out how the attitude of a President of the Republic of Indonesia on social media Instagram. The purpose of the research to be achieved by the writer is to know and describe the self-image in Instagram Jokowi.Komunikasi merupakan salah satu pokok yang menjadi kebutuhan dasar manusia dalam menjalani kehidupan sebagai makhluk sosial. Seiring perkembangan zaman yang ada teknologi berkembang hingga media sosial pun sangat berkembang, salah satunya media sosial yang berkembang adalah Instagram yang saat ini telah hadir ditengah masyarakat. Masyarakat dapat menggunakan media sosial Instagram yang saat ini juga sebagai media yang dapat membuat setiap orang dapat berkomunikasi baik secara jarak jauh maupun jarak dekat. Instagram juga bisa melihat bagaimana  citra diri seseorang  dalam sebuah media sosial yang ada seperti pada  postingan di Instagram yang dapat memperlihatkan kegiatan seseorang. Salah satunya Instagram milik Presiden Republik Indonesia Joko Widodo yang terbilang aktif di media sosial Instagram, meski memiliki kegiatan yang sangat padat. Jokowi juga menunjukkan citra dirinya melalui setiap postingan yang diunggah di Instagram. Presiden Joko Widodo sangat aktif dalam mengunggah setiap postingan baik dalam kegiatan politik, keluarga bahkan sampai kegiatan bersama masyarakat. Dalam penelitian ini, penulis ingin mengetahui bagaimana penyikapan diri seorang Presiden Republik Indonesia Joko Widodo dalam media sosial Instagram terhadap masyarakat, keluarga, dan politik. Penulis akan menganalisis setiap postingan Jokowi dari bulan Juni hingga Agustus untuk mengetahui bagaimana penyikapan diri seorang Presiden Republik Indonesia dalam media sosial Instagram. Tujuan penelitian yang ingin dicapai oleh penulis adalah untuk mengetahui dan mendeskripsikan Citra diri dalam Instagram Jokowi

scholarly journals An Exploratory Study of Nonsurgical Cosmetic Procedures Consumers

1970 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-96
Author(s):  
Timothy Reisenwitz ◽  
Jie Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Information Use ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Cognitive Age ◽  
Managerial Implications

This exploratory study investigated the amount of information used byconsumers when engaging in non-surgical cosmetic procedures. Moreover, theprimary purpose of the research is to investigate the linkage between non-surgicalcosmetic procedures and the constructs associated with the “self,” such as attitudetoward social media advertising, attitude toward traditional (mass media) advertising,cognitive age, risk aversion, satisfaction, and self-image or self-concept. T-tests ofthe data yielded significant results for most of the variables. This research willhopefully aid marketers to better focus on important areas of information use bynon-surgical cosmetic procedures consumers. These results are discussed, alongwith managerial implications, limitations and directions for future research.

scholarly journals Pembentukan Citra Diri Mahasiswa Fakultas Ilmu Komunikasi Universitas dr. Soetomo Surabaya dalam Instagram

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nabila Saridilla Reza Putri ◽  
Farida Farida
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Female Students ◽  
The Self ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Science Faculty ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The University ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This study focuses on the establishment of self-image of students in the University. Soetomo Surabaya in using Instagram social media. This study is a communication research because it examines how the formation of self-image in faculty of communication science students in social media networking in Instagram is needed. The formulation of the problem of this research is how the formation of self-image of students in instagram?. Library review used by researchers is social media instagram as a means of forming self-image, student self-image, Dramaturgi theory. While the method used by researchers is descriptive qualitative. The self-image seen in the students in communication science faculty is about over confidence dominated by female students. This was indicated by several informants selected by the researcher. Based on the interviews, found the data that the formation of self-image through social media Instagram based on aspects that highlighted such as physical, psychological and social aspects.Based on the research conducted by interviews, found the findings that the students of communication science faculty dr soetomo surabaya use instagram in shaping his image, The formation of self-image is always marked by the understanding of instagram users to themselves through the concept of Dramaturgi. Aspects highlighted by the informant vary depending on her understanding. The informant will highlight the part that is understood as an advantage and will cover (save) something that is understood as a weaknessKeywords:Instagram, Self image.

Resistance and Protests Through the “Selfie”

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Yasmin Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The Self ◽  
Material Body ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Attention Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Resistance ◽  
Embodied Self

Conjoining images of digital self-portraits (i.e., ‘selfies') with protests and resistance recasts the self through new paradigms of enquiry in the social media landscape. The appropriation of digital self-imagery to express protest and partake in social movements and resistance personalises and individuates collective resistance, and, in the process, the ‘self-image' becomes a tool of embodied self-expression as well as solidarity imbuing the ‘self' through new modalities of social relations where the material body is co-opted into a politics of protest without de-centring the self. This chapter examines the phenomenon of selfie-activism within the social media era where the ‘visual' turn of instant imagery lends new forms of the attention economy to protests and campaigns, pulling physically bound protests into virtual and voyeuristic forms online where they perform both to the politics of protest and the demands of semiotic capitalism.

‘A pinch of unseen, unguarded dust’: The World and Self in Thomas Hardy's Poems

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-66
Author(s):  
Monika Szuba
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Phenomenological Philosophy ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Recurrent Theme ◽  
Body Subject

The essay discusses selected poems from Thomas Hardy's vast body of poetry, focusing on representations of the self and the world. Employing Maurice Merleau-Ponty's concepts such as the body-subject, wild being, flesh, and reversibility, the essay offers an analysis of Hardy's poems in the light of phenomenological philosophy. It argues that far from demonstrating ‘cosmic indifference’, Hardy's poetry offers a sympathetic vision of interrelations governing the universe. The attunement with voices of the Earth foregrounded in the poems enables the self's entanglement in the flesh of the world, a chiasmatic intertwining of beings inserted between the leaves of the world. The relation of the self with the world is established through the act of perception, mainly visual and aural, when the body becomes intertwined with the world, thus resulting in a powerful welding. Such moments of vision are brief and elusive, which enhances a sense of transitoriness, and, yet, they are also timeless as the self becomes immersed in the experience. As time is a recurrent theme in Hardy's poetry, this essay discusses it in the context of dwelling, the provisionality of which is demonstrated in the prevalent sense of temporality, marked by seasons and birdsong, which underline the rhythms of the world.

FACEBOOK SEBAGAI MEDIA BARU TAFSIR AL-QUR’AN DI INDONESIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
Wildan Imaduddin Muhammad
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Methodological Problem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Basic Character ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach ◽  
The Times ◽  
Qur'anic Interpretation

This article analyzes the product of Salman Harun's Qur'anic  interpretation with  Facebook  as the medium. As one of the senior professors who pursue the field of interpretation, he has managed to follow the times by utilizing internet technology. There are two focus areas in the study; the first aspect of the sense of Indonesian tafsir attached to the self of Salman Harun, the two aspects of the novelty of discourse that became the basic character of social media. Both aspects are interesting to be studied with a hermeneutic approach. Given that  the  methodological problem that often arises from the hermeneutic approach is the context of the interpreter that is difficult to trace accurately, then this article finds its relevance to the case of Salman Harun's interpretation which uses the facebook media as the actualization of its interpretation product.

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