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Selfie

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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Origins and development of selfie-taking

KawaiiHiromixCanonMinolta101 Un-Useless Japanese Inventions
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Sociology

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Early history of self-portraits

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Psychology and neuroscience

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Early history of self-portraits

Origins and development of selfie-taking

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Injuries while taking photos

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Selfie

Nodes173
Edges172
Triples216
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.011561
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Selfie

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related to Celebrity selfies · 29
Selfie → Academy Awards, Actor, Angelina Jolie, Barack Obama, Brad Pitt, Bradley Cooper, By, Channing Tatum, DeGeneres, Ellen DeGeneres, Emma Barnett, Franco, Instagram, It, James Franco, Jared Leto, Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Lupita Nyong'o
related to Political selfies · 24
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 · 18
Selfie → Ascend P7, Business Insider, China, Chinese, France, Germany, Huawei, Huawei Technologies, In January, Justin Bieber, Pope Francis, Russia, Selena Gomez, The, The Daily Dot, TMZ, United States, Vatican
related to Japanese selfie culture · 16
Selfie → By, Canon, Hiromi Toshikawa, Hiromix, Japan, Japanese, Mima Yujiro, Minolta Disc-7, One, Seventeen Girl Days, She, The, This, Ueda Hiroshi, Un-Useless Japanese Inventions, While
related to history · 15
Selfie → American, Because, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, He, In, It, Kodak Brownie, Laurel Hill Cemetery, New York Times, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Robert Cornelius, Russia, Swedish, The
related to Social media popularity · 14
Selfie → As, During, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Geofilters, In September, Instagram, July, October, Selfies, Snapchat, Social, The, Twitter
related to Gender roles, sexuality, and privacy · 12
Selfie → Erin Gloria Ryan, Feminist, Gail Dines, In, Jennifer Pozner, Jezebel, Media, Megan Murphy, Nonetheless, Sociologist Ben Agger, The Jezebel, Twitter
related to Etymology · 11
Selfie → Although Hope, And, Australia, Australian, Dr Karl Self-Serve Science, Forum, Karl Kruszelnicki's, Nathan Hope, September, The, Um
related to International popularity · 10
Selfie → April, Australians, East Asia, East Asian, However, Internet, Internet Archive, Japan, Outside, September
related to Facial distortion effect · 9
Selfie → American Academy, Another, Because, Facial Plastic, Front-facing, Reconstructive Surgery, This, Though, When

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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

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