The Fairest of Them All: Selfie Culture, Gendered Vanity, and Art

In 2013, Oxford Dictionaries declared “selfie” as its word of the year, rocketing the colloquialism into common usage. The word, which is defined as “a photographic self-portrait; esp. one taken with a smartphone or webcam and shared via social media,” is unique in its dependency on modern technology—its use explicitly relies on the ability for information to…