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Selfie: History, Art & Cultures

A selfie (/ˈsɛlfi/) is a self-portrait photograph or a short video, typically taken with an electronic camera or smartphone. The camera would be usually held at arm's length or supported by a selfie stick instead of being controlled with a self-timer or remote. The concept of shooting oneself while viewing their own image in the camera's LCD monitor is…

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Selfie topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Art and Cultures as prominent areas in the source structure around Selfie.

Related topics
164
Source areas
8
Connected nodes
172
Extracted relationships
175
Related term clusters
36
Bridge connections
172

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Sociology · 59 topics
Origins and development of selfie-taking · 56 topics
Overview · 18 topics
Early history of self-portraits · 10 topics
Psychology and neuroscience · 9 topics
Injuries while taking photos · 6 topics
Etymology · 4 topics
Types · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

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Overview

Etymology

Early history of self-portraits

Origins and development of selfie-taking

Sociology

Psychology and neuroscience

Types

Injuries while taking photos

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How Selfie connects Entity context

The extracted context around Selfie shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Selfie → Academy Awards, Actor, Angelina Jolie, Barack Obama, Brad Pitt, Bradley Cooper, Channing Tatum, DeGeneres, Ellen DeGeneres, Emma Barnett, Franco, Instagram, James Franco, Jared Leto, Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Lupita Nyong'o, Many, Meryl Streep Another extracted example is Selfie → Alain Berset, Barack Obama, BJP Prime Ministerial, British, Danish, David Cameron, Despite, First Lady Michelle Obama, Gandhinagar, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Iain Martin, In India, In July, India, Johannesburg's FNB Stadium, Mandela, Narendra Modi, Nelson Mandela's, Roberto Schmidt, Swiss. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Selfie

Top relations

related to Celebrity selfies · 25
Selfie → Academy Awards, Actor, Angelina Jolie, Barack Obama, Brad Pitt, Bradley Cooper, Channing Tatum, DeGeneres, Ellen DeGeneres, Emma Barnett, Franco, Instagram, James Franco, Jared Leto, Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Lupita Nyong'o, Many, Meryl Streep
related to Political selfies · 23
Selfie → Alain Berset, Barack Obama, BJP Prime Ministerial, British, Danish, David Cameron, Despite, First Lady Michelle Obama, Gandhinagar, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Iain Martin, In India, In July, India, Johannesburg's FNB Stadium, Mandela, Narendra Modi, Nelson Mandela's, Roberto Schmidt, Swiss
related to Group selfies · 17
Selfie → Ascend P7, Business Insider, China, Chinese, France, Germany, Huawei, Huawei Technologies, In January, Justin Bieber, Pope Francis, Russia, Selena Gomez, The Daily Dot, TMZ, United States, Vatican
related to Gender roles, sexuality, and privacy · 11
Selfie → Erin Gloria Ryan, Feminist, Gail Dines, Jennifer Pozner, Jezebel, Media, Megan Murphy, Nonetheless, Sociologist Ben Agger, The Jezebel, Twitter
related to Japanese selfie culture · 11
Selfie → Canon, Hiromi Toshikawa, Hiromix, Japan, Japanese, Mima Yujiro, Minolta Disc-7, One, Seventeen Girl Days, Ueda Hiroshi, Un-Useless Japanese Inventions
related to Social media popularity · 11
Selfie → Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Geofilters, In September, Instagram, July, October, Selfies, Snapchat, Social, Twitter
related to history · 10
Selfie → American, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, Kodak Brownie, Laurel Hill Cemetery, New York Times, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Robert Cornelius, Russia, Swedish
related to Etymology · 9
Selfie → Although Hope, Australia, Australian, Dr Karl Self-Serve Science, Forum, Karl Kruszelnicki's, Nathan Hope, September, Um
related to International popularity · 9
Selfie → April, Australians, East Asia, East Asian, Internet, Internet Archive, Japan, Outside, September
related to Facial distortion effect · 6
Selfie → American Academy, Another, Facial Plastic, Front-facing, Reconstructive Surgery, Though

Important terminology

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Important terminology

selfies camera taken social one instagram popular photo take purikura snapchat also media users people front-facing photos japanese taking mirror

Selfie relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 175 structured relationships around Selfie. Examples in this analysis include Facebook → instance of → via social networking services and fast food shops → instance of → before expanding to other popular culture locations. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Facebookinstance ofvia social networking services0.80text
Instagraminstance ofvia social networking services0.80text
Threadsinstance ofvia social networking services0.80text
Twitterinstance ofvia social networking services0.80text
and Snapchatinstance ofvia social networking services0.80text
fast food shopsinstance ofbefore expanding to other popular culture locations0.80text
train stationsinstance ofbefore expanding to other popular culture locations0.80text
karaoke establishmentsinstance ofbefore expanding to other popular culture locations0.80text
and bowling alleysinstance ofbefore expanding to other popular culture locations0.80text
Instagraminstance ofPhotographic features in purikura were later adopted by smartphone apps0.80text
Snapchatinstance ofPhotographic features in purikura were later adopted by smartphone apps0.80text
including scribbling graffiti or typing text over selfiesinstance ofPhotographic features in purikura were later adopted by smartphone apps0.80text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Selfie bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Camera, One and Taken. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • japanese video game
    • Purikura
    • Game
    • Video
    • Culture
    • Japanese
    • Used
    • Mobile
    • Front-facing
    • Photo
    • Photos
    • Selfie
    • Smartphone
  • Selfie
    • Camera
    • One
    • Taken
    • Japanese
    • Popular
    • Selfies
    • Culture
    • Term
    • Called
    • Used
    • Photo
    • Taking
  • selfie
    • Camera
    • One
    • Taken
    • Japanese
    • Popular
    • Selfies
    • Culture
    • Term
    • Called
    • Used
    • Photo
    • Taking
  • camera
    • Front-facing
    • Mobile
    • Selfie
    • Taken
    • Selfies
    • Smartphone
    • Self-portrait
    • Mirror
    • Video
    • Game
    • Purikura
    • Used
  • selfie stick
    • Camera
    • One
    • Taken
    • Japanese
    • Popular
    • Selfies
    • Culture
    • Term
    • Called
    • Used
    • Photo
    • Taking
  • box camera
    • Front-facing
    • Mobile
    • Selfie
    • Taken
    • Selfies
    • Smartphone
    • Self-portrait
    • Mirror
    • Video
    • Game
    • Purikura
    • Used
  • video camera
    • Front-facing
    • Game
    • Mobile
    • Selfie
    • Japanese
    • Purikura
    • Used
    • Taken
    • Photo
    • Selfies
    • Smartphone
    • Self-portrait
  • game boy camera
    • Purikura
    • Front-facing
    • Video
    • Japanese
    • Mobile
    • Selfie
    • Taken
    • Photo
    • Selfies
    • Smartphone
    • Self-portrait
    • Mirror

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Selfie, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Selfie with Sociology. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Selfie — Sociology · splits 113 ⟂ 60
Selfie — Origins and development of selfie-taking · splits 116 ⟂ 57
Selfie — Overview · splits 154 ⟂ 19
Selfie — Early history of self-portraits · splits 162 ⟂ 11
Selfie — Psychology and neuroscience · splits 163 ⟂ 10
Selfie — Injuries while taking photos · splits 166 ⟂ 7
Selfie — Etymology · splits 168 ⟂ 5
Selfie — Types · splits 170 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Selfie

Nodes173
Edges172
Triples175
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.011561
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Selfie to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Art & Cultures, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Selfie · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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