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OPINION: Three years ago, on the 18th of November, 2013, the Oxford English Dictionary named the term “selfie” as their Word of the Year.

It was a term coined by an Australian, who took a photo of himself. He then posted it on an ABC online forum, saying, “Um, drunk at a mates 21st, I tripped ofer [sic] and landed lip first (with front teeth coming a very close second) on a set of steps. I had a hole about 1cm long right through my bottom lip. And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie”.

Today the term crops up with the regularity of death and taxes in news feeds across the world, and like death and taxes, it releases myriad conflicting contrails. Selfies have been blamed for ruining your relationships, your skin and photography itself. Oh, and of course, you might be a psychopath if you’re a selfie-posting man.

But selfie culture jams numerous urges together: the impulse to be noticed, to exert control over one’s own self-presentation, to bear witness, to reframe stereotypes, to celebrate.

Last week in Australia, Kevin Kwok took a video selfie in front of a bushfire in Kundabung, in northern NSW, documenting the danger he was in. Predictably, he was criticised for being a narcissist, for thinking of selfies rather than survival, in an echo of the selfies-as-pathological story we are accustomed to hearing these days.

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In Lisbon, a selfie-taking tourist accidentally, if ironically, broke an 18th century statue of St. Michael, seen by Christians as the protector from evil. Earlier this year in Mumbai, the police enforced “no-selfie zones” to try and prevent selfie-related fatalities particularly in coastal areas with no handrails. We all know that it takes only a few microseconds for search engines to throw up selfies of pouting celebrities and mudbloods alike, in mid-twerk or mid-bicep-bulge.

Vincent van Gogh painted some 36 self-portraits in ten years. Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait, 1889. National Gallery of Art

Many would argue this is “a thirst for social media self-aggrandisement”. As the comedian Keith Lowell Jensen tweeted, “What Orwell failed to predict is that we’d buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching”. We seem to be in an era where social media provides unparalleled opportunity for narcissistic practices.

Yet this is ultimately a facile, cynical, and privileged view. After all, the possibilities of various forms of social media are not so very different from other kinds of media of self-expression: think pen and paper, brush strokes on canvas, or even playlists on music streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music.

According to communication scholars Theresa Senft and Nancy Baym from the Selfie Researchers Network, a selfie is,

a photographic object that initiates the transmission of human feeling in the form of a relationship … The selfie signifies a sense of human agency.

The real seduction of selfie culture lies in its potential to liberate: for those who have been the objects of the gaze of the privileged, to assume agency and fashion a gaze of their own choosing. One of the radical messages implicit in the Bible is that you have to love yourself first before you can love your neighbour.

This connection between self-love and the germination of empathy was taken up by Italian author Elena Ferrante in a recent interview. She argued that she’d never felt narcissism to be a sin (although it can be taken to extremes), saying,

The woman who practises surveillance on herself without letting herself be the object of surveillance is the great innovation of our times.

Selfie culture offers the means to write back: to empire, to heteronormative patriarchy, to whiteness, to all forms of privilege. The real power of the selfie is potent for those who have so far been unseen, or seen only through the representation of others. It is to say, as the photography theorist Paul Frosh says, “see me showing you me”.

Many of those who have been silenced before are saying loud and clear, “see me showing you me” in sometimes surprising, and sometimes ingenious ways. In India, some rape survivors have used Snapchat to take video selfies, using filters such as the dragon mask, which hide their faces but reveal their eyes and their courage.

These young women may not yet be able to show their faces because of legal issues, deeply entrenched societal prejudices and the real fear for their safety. But they are telling their own previously unheard stories of trauma to the world using a phone facing their own (even if masked) faces.

A young woman hiding her face with a Snapchat filter while talking about her experience of violence. Climb Against Sexual Assault/Facebook

The #creatingconsentculture activist Amber Amour live-blogged the aftermath of being raped, pushing back against victim-shaming and stigma with unapologetic selfies.

Numerous body-positive selfies on blogs and other social media platforms are contributing to the resistance against the unrealistic ideal of feminine beauty, what Naomi Wolf once famously termed “the beauty myth”.

Selfies of indigenous people in different parts of the globe, are a powerful statement about resisting erasure. A cursory web search using the term “indigenous selfie” reveals the diversity of First Nations communities across the world, united in their defiance of the continuing decimation of indigenous cultures.

Dalit History Month crosses genres and takes the selfie to a different, more collaborative, level. It is focused on the experiences of the historically oppressed and still violently abused Dalit communities in India. As a participatory radical history project working a lot with social media, it resists the usual study of Dalits without Dalits. A similar collaborative project in Australia is Indigenous X.

A 2013 study called Young people and sexting in Australia: Ethics, representation and the law, highlighted the diverse practices that are part of digital picture sharing culture, including private selfies, public selfies, and joke selfies.

In one of the papers that emerged out of this study, Selfies, Sexts, and Sneaky Hats, researcher Kath Albury draws our attention to “the broader cultural ambivalence and anxieties regarding sexed and gendered practices of self-representation”.

In light of this, we may ask why such ambivalence and anxiety exists. This is a question with roots so deep it will take a few lifetimes to excavate. However, considering this question does help us look past this legacy narrative of selfie-as-pathology.

It is a question that nicely illuminates the idea that the selfie, far from being a four (or six) letter word, is in fact not just a word at all. It is a whole other language, one that offers the unseen and unheard a spectacular way of writing back.

Roanna Gonsalves is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW.

This opinion piece was first published in The Conversation.

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“Selfie” has been named as word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries. The word has evolved from a niche social media tag into a mainstream term for a self-portrait photograph, the editors said.

When did selfie become an official word?

The first-known appearance of “selfie” in written form occurred in 2002 on an Australian news website, but the word didn’t see much use until 2012. By November 2013, “selfie” was appearing frequently enough in print and electronic media that the Oxford English Dictionary chose the word as its Word of the Year.

Is selfie correct English?

Meaning of selfie in English
a photograph that you take of yourself , usually with a mobile phone. Selfies are often published using social media: He posted a series of close-up selfies on his Instagram yesterday.

Are selfies formal?

noun Informal. a photograph taken with a smartphone or other digital camera by a person who is also in the photograph, especially for posting on a social media website: celebrities sharing selfies on Twitter.

Is selfie in the Oxford dictionary?

Selfie is defined by Oxford Dictionaries as “a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website”.

Is a selfie a form of communication?

We see that selfies can be a visual form of communication. Selfies be digital story telling. Whether this be though a journalist’s selfie, or the message behind a selfie being taken. With every selfie, a story/ message is being communicated to the public.

What do British call selfies?

Selfie was named ‘word of the 2013’ by Oxford Dictionaries but now there’s a new term on the block: the usie. Pronounced ‘uss-ee’ – and rhyming with ‘fussy’ – the word marks the growing trend for people squeezing their friends into their camera frame, as well as themselves.

Are selfies capitalized?

The word selfie was the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year in 2013. The plural of selfie is selfies.

What’s another word for selfie?

What is another word for selfie?

picture	image
photo	photograph
shot	portrait
snap	still
snapshot	frame

Who coined the word selfie?

Nathan Hope
However, the word ‘selfie’ was only founded in 2002, when an Australian man, Nathan Hope, got drunk at his 21st birthday and posted a picture of his stitched lip with the caption “sorry about the focus, it was a selfie”.

What is the formal and informal definition of selfie?

A selfie is a photograph that you take of yourself, especially using a mobile phone. [informal] He took a selfie in front of the Taj Mahal.

What is the verb of selfie?

Verb. selfie (third-person singular simple present selfies, present participle selfying, simple past and past participle selfied)

What is a selfie video called?

Velfie: A video taken of oneself. (A combination of “video” and “selfie.”)

Why was selfie named Oxford Dictionary?

Yes, the first-ever known mention of the word “selfie” stemmed from an inebriated mouth with teeth protruding through its bottom lip. Given those circumstances, Oxford may not much care how you spell it. You could go with “ie” or “y,” as in “selfy.”

What is the word of the year 2020?

pandemic
Based upon a statistical analysis of words that are looked up in extremely high numbers in our online dictionary while also showing a significant year-over-year increase in traffic, Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2020 is pandemic.

What is the meaning of Welfie?

Noun. welfie (plural welfies) (slang) A self-taken photograph of one’s exercise session.

What is meant by self communication?

Intrapersonal communication can be defined as communication with one’s self, and that may include self-talk, acts of imagination and visualization, and even recall and memory (McLean, 2005 ).Until the moment when you hit the “send” button, you are communicating with yourself.

What is a group selfie called?

So a group selfie is now officially called an ‘usie’ (sometimes spelt ‘ussie’ – and pronounced so it rhymes with ‘fussy’).

What is a slang word for picture?

Pics is an informal shortening of “pictures,” usually used in reference to sharing images online or through text messages.

Do people still use the word selfie?

Although “selfie” can be traced back more than 10 years, it only gained momentum throughout the English-speaking world in 2013. Research suggests its frequency of use has increased 17,000 per cent over the past 12 months. The word was often spelled “selfy” early on but “selfie” has become the accepted spelling.

Is selfie a compound word?

It is formed from self and the suffix “–ie” which denotes smallness, cuteness, or familiarity (as in lassie, Jamie, Auntie). The earliest citation of selfie is from a forum post on the Australian website ABC Online dated 13 September 2002.

Contents

1 When did selfie become an official word?
2 Is selfie correct English?
3 Are selfies formal?
4 Is selfie in the Oxford dictionary?
5 Is a selfie a form of communication?
6 What do British call selfies?
7 Are selfies capitalized?
8 What’s another word for selfie?
9 Who coined the word selfie?
10 What is the formal and informal definition of selfie?
11 What is the verb of selfie?
12 What is a selfie video called?
13 Why was selfie named Oxford Dictionary?
14 What is the word of the year 2020?
15 What is the meaning of Welfie?
16 What is meant by self communication?
17 What is a group selfie called?
18 What is a slang word for picture?
19 Do people still use the word selfie?
20 Is selfie a compound word?

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Roanna Gonsalves, whose debut collection of short fiction The Permanent Resident was released last November, will be appearing at a number of events at the Sydney Writers Festival next month.

One of these events is an author talk on «Literature as Selfie.» Roanna published an article on selfies in The Conversation, which makes great preliminary reading for those thinking about attending the session.

Roanna will also be appearing at Rewilding Your Short Story and Writing Race as part of The Sydney Writers Festival.

This article was first published on The Conversation.

Selfie is not a Dirty Word

Three years ago, on the 18th of November, 2013, the Oxford English Dictionary named the term “selfie” as their Word of the Year.

But selfie culture jams numerous urges together: the impulse to be noticed, to exert control over one’s own self-presentation, to bear witness, to reframe stereotypes, to celebrate.

According to communication scholars Theresa Senft and Nancy Baym from the Selfie Researchers Network, a selfie is,

a photographic object that initiates the transmission of human feeling in the form of a relationship … The selfie signifies a sense of human agency.

The woman who practises surveillance on herself without letting herself be the object of surveillance is the great innovation of our times.

The #creatingconsentculture activist Amber Amour live-blogged the aftermath of being raped, pushing back against victim-shaming and stigma with unapologetic selfies.

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A couple takes a ‘selfie’ outside Rockefeller Center.

Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images

It’s been another whirlwind week in the dictionary world. A few months ago, you might recall, Oxford Dictionaries announced that it was adding twerk in its latest quarterly update. The announcement came amid the uproar over Miley Cyrus twerking at MTV’s Video Music Awards, creating what I called a “perfect lexicographical storm.” Suddenly, everyone was weighing in on how the inclusion of twerk in a dictionary—from Oxford, no less!—signaled nothing less than the disintegration of the social fabric.

When the news first leaked out earlier this week that Oxford Dictionaries would be selecting selfie as its Word of the Year, my first thought was that it was a reasonably safe pick, and unlikely to generate the firestorm of publicity that we saw during Twerkageddon. After all, Oxford had already announced that selfie was going into its online dictionaries (not the OED!) in the same update that introduced twerk, and there wasn’t much commentary about it at the time.

I also figured that selfie would not attract as much attention as some of Oxford’s Word of the Year picks in the past, like when the US dictionary program picked Sarah Palin’s refudiate in 2010 or the verb GIF last year. (Full disclosure: I used to be editor for American dictionaries for Oxford University Press and had a hand in selecting earlier Words of the Year, like locavore in 2007.)

As it turned out, I guessed wrong. The selection of selfie was huge international news, generating far more headlines than twerk (a runner-up for Oxford’s Word of the Year) ever did. The late-night talk shows had fun with the news, too. Conan O’Brien’s joke was typical: “The Oxford Dictionary has named selfie the word of the year, narrowly beating out twerk. In a related story, the funeral for the English language is this Saturday.”

But beyond the usual hand-wringing over the fate of the language (and society in general), what made the selfie news especially juicy was Oxford’s identification of the earliest known example of the word, in a 2002 science forum post on the website of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. In a discussion about dissolvable stitches, a poster calling himself “Hopey” recounted:

Um, drunk at a mates 21st, I tripped ofer and landed lip first (with front teeth coming a very close second) on a set of steps. I had a hole about 1cm long right through my bottom lip. And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie.

The post was accompanied by Hopey’s out-of-focus selfie displaying his stitched-up lip.

Credit for the discovery of this post should go to Hugo van Kemenade, a contributor to the American Dialect Society’s mailing list. (I’m chair of the society’s New Words Committee, and we’ll be having our own Word of the Year selection at our annual meeting on Jan. 3.) In late August, after Oxford Dictionaries announced selfie in its quarterly update, van Kemenade set about finding the earliest known example of the word, and his search turned up Hopey’s 2002 usage.

It makes sense, of course, that selfie would find early popularity in Australia, where the –ie suffix has long been a source for the formation of slangy nicknames known as hypocoristics (think barbie for barbecue, mozzie for mosquito, and Aussie for Australian). But that doesn’t mean our man Hopey singlehandedly came up with the term after a drunken night out with his Aussie pals.

Undeterred, media outlets seized on the 2002 citation as the original “coinage” of the word. Soon there were entire articles devoted to Hopey—such as The Telegraph’s “Australian man ‘invented the selfie after drunken night out’“—complete with the gruesome close-up of his lip and the dissolvable stitches.

Hopey’s selfie.

Nathan Hope

In Australia, Hopey quickly became a celebrity. Since his post appeared on the ABC’s website, it’s not surprising that ABC News was the one that tracked the man down and revealed his identity. His name, it turns out, is Nathan Hope—naturally, “Hopey” was formed by the same hypocoristic method that turned self-portrait into selfie. The interview that the ABC conducted with him was a bit anticlimactic, however.

Hope expressed genuine puzzlement that his long-forgotten forum post, complete with misspellings, had become international news, along with the photo of his busted-up lip. And he dispelled the idea that he was somehow responsible for the word. “It was not a word I coined. It’s something that was just common slang at the time, used to describe a picture of yourself. Fairly simple.”

So Hopey didn’t coin selfie, but why would everyone think that he did? There is a common assumption that a word can be traced back to a sole identifiable inventor who forged it in a burst of creativity. While this is sometimes the case (think of Lewis Carroll’s chortle, or J.R.R. Tolkien’s hobbit), historical lexicographers know that far more often, the best we can do is follow the trail of evidence as far back as it takes us without uncovering an originator.

Furthermore, in this case, it’s very likely that there was no single moment when the word was created, no Ur-selfie. Instead, as cellphone photography became commonplace more than a decade ago, numerous Australians probably thought to apply the hypocoristic –ie to make selfie. And it is also a good bet that, as is often the case with slang, the word traveled orally before anyone like Hopey thought to type it out in a forum that could be retrieved online by future word-hunters.

So let this be a cautionary tale. Make that two. First, if you see that the Oxford English Dictionary or some other source has identified the first-known citation of a particular term, don’t assume that the citation represents the birth of the word into the world. It may not even represent its entry into print, since so much writing, even in our digital age, remains ephemeral. And second, avoid stairs when intoxicated.

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I was asked to edit a translation and I noticed that the original English sentence is:

Selfie (only) — You will only need to upload a selfie photo.

The context is the process of uploading documents to verify an account on a trading web application. Let’s call it high-level financial business.

Now, I am not a native English speaker but this really sounds «wrong» to me. Rather than wrong, not something to write in this kind of context. I don’t know how to say, it doesn’t sound «serious».

Am I wrong? Is it actually a perfectly fine and professional-sounding word? My guess is no. Moreover, I think that the word selfie is also too generic for what I believe is the purpose of the picture in question. A selfie could be anything (expression, posture, background, etc) as long as it’s self-taken.

In case I’m right, what would be a better alternative? Self portrait? Headshot? Passport photo?

Thank you.

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