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This foundational course explores the selfie as a dynamic medium of self-expression, cultural critique, and digital identity. Students will engage with concepts from disciplines such as media theory, visual culture, feminist studies, queer studies, and digital humanities to examine the significance of selfies across social, cultural, and technological contexts. This course will provide students with the tools to critically analyze and engage with selfies as transformative acts of representation and meaning-making.

This advanced course delves deeper into the multifaceted roles of selfies as tools for challenging societal norms, constructing identities, and navigating power dynamics. Building on foundational knowledge, students will critically examine the intersections of selfies with embodiment, activism, commodification, and virtuality through the lenses of thinkers such as John Berger, Marshall McLuhan, Pierre Lévy, Judith Butler, bell hooks, and José Esteban Muñoz. This course will empower students to apply these advanced frameworks in innovative ways, pushing the boundaries of the selfie as a medium for cultural, artistic, and political intervention.

Explore the multiple levels of knowledge production and meaning-making within the selfie, examining it as a somatic, representational, relational, and metaphysical medium. This course delves into the selfie’s role in self-reflection, cultural critique, and the dynamics of digital identity.

Trace the evolution of self-representation from early art forms to the contemporary selfie in digital culture. This course contextualizes the selfie within broader historical, technological, and cultural shifts, highlighting its transformation over time.

Approach the selfie as an iterative and participatory art form, integrating theory with creative practice. Students will explore how selfies function as tools for personal expression, cultural critique, and collective engagement in contemporary art.

Engage with philosophical questions surrounding the selfie, including its role in shaping identity, reality, and authenticity. Drawing from media theory, phenomenology, and aesthetics, this course examines the selfie as a tool for self-knowing and world-making.

Analyze the role of selfies in shaping economies of attention, influence, and monetization within digital culture. Topics include the commodification of identity, branding through selfies, and the socio-economic implications of self-representation.

Investigate how selfies intersect with power, visibility, and the politics of life and death in digital spaces. This course examines the ways marginalized identities navigate surveillance, erasure, and resistance through the act of self-representation.

Explore how selfies serve as somatic technologies, engaging the body and emotions in acts of self-expression and self-care. The course integrates practices like selfie choreographies with theories of embodiment and mindfulness.

Explore how artificial intelligence interacts with selfies, from facial recognition to filters and generative tools. This course examines the implications of algorithmic mediation on identity and self-perception.

Investigate the selfie as a medium for spiritual exploration and ritualistic practice. Students will explore the intersection of selfies with healing, restorative play, and self-awareness, incorporating frameworks like the Selfie Oracle.