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Selfie Abuse

March 20, 2017 by Scott McLemee Leave a Comment

One finding of a German study discussed in my column last week is that the subjects most involved in generating and posting selfies tended to want their social-media contacts to post something besides selfies. Not exactly counter-intuitive, of course, but interesting to have confirmed with all due statistical finesse.

I thought about including a selfie with the piece (the best I’ve ever taken and an homage to Ingmar Bergman’s Persona, sort of) but decided against it. Given the chance to do it over again — well, here it is.

 

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Scott McLemee

Scott McLemee writes the weekly column Intellectual Affairs for Inside Higher Ed and is part of the editorial staff for Jacobin magazine.

From 1995 until 2001, he was contributing editor for Lingua Franca. Between 2001 and 2005, he covered scholarship in the humanities as senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has served on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle and in 2004 received the NBCC's award for excellence in reviewing.

He is willing to write about himself in the third person, if necessary, but tries not to make a habit of it

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