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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Selfies"”.
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Scripts, selfies and sexting: exploring young women’s engagement with the internet and social media in Northern Ireland
This research investigated how girls and young women across Northern Ireland engaged with the internet and social media to express their gender and sexuality in an era of online communication. The study is informed by data collected through eighteen focus group discussions with 196 girls and young …
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Shaping and reshaping identities in everyday literacy practices: Adolescent girls' use of selfies in a social and mobile world
… Scant studies explore how young girls use selfies in literacy development and identity formation. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore how young adolescent girls use selfies as literacy practices using social media and mobile technology, and how they represent their …
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Self(ie)-Care and Mental Health
The amount of research on the use of selfies as a form of care is scarce, with those focusing on mental health being non-existent. Following Foucault’s genealogy of madness, this paper attempts to analyse how forms of care enacted through the taking, posting, and viewing of selfies work to critique …
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Individual Differences in Selfie Taking, Photo Manipulation and Filter Use Amongst Young Adults
… underpinning how people interact with selfies and how our individual differences may influence the relationship with selfie taking, selfie sharing and photo manipulation. Using young adults aged between 18 and 30 years old (n = 104), this study explored the potential relationship …
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The Return of the Dead: Resurrecting Chappell's Family Gathering
… album full of still shots, snapshots, and even selfies, which illumines how Chappell’s use of the grotesque in this collection derives more from its original association with visual arts rather than only depicting the grotesque typically associated with characteristics deemed explicitly shocking …
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After Watteau : Nicolas Lancret and the creation of the hunt luncheon
… food: from farmers' markets to prepared meals to selfies holding food. The foodstuff that people show themselves eating or getting ready to eat are indicators of their social identities and how they would like to be perceived by others. These food items also carry connotations ranging from rustic …
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Design considerations for an AI-prompted “Future-Self” video journaling tool to enhance self-efficacy
… users through the process of recording video selfies with future-self narratives. The study aims to gain insights into a Large Language Model (LLM) that should be fine-tuned based on unique experiences, compare different styles of guided approaches, test metrics for self-efficacy and Future …
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AI for materials design: Generative AI with multi-fidelity strategies
… on a dataset of 198 million molecules using the SELFIES representation. It achieves perfect reconstruction accuracy, generates chemically diverse and valid molecules, and offers a compact and interpretable latent space suitable for downstream design tasks. Second, we build on this well-trained …
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A Multimodal Biometric Authentication for Smartphones
… in sensor and supporting hardware, courtesy of ‘selfies’ on all smartphones. Face, iris and visible vasculature are three biometric traits that can be captured in visible spectrum using existing cameras on smartphone. Current biometric recognition systems on smartphones rely on a single biometric …
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Facebook engagement on college students' interpersonal and intrapersonal functioning
… activity of posting self-in-focus photos (i.e., “selfies”) was negatively associated with social connectedness and life-satisfaction and positively associated with loneliness and identity distress. Finally, two Facebook Engagement variables were identified by CCA. The first, Common Facebook …
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Reconstructing Visual Appearance and Process by Repurposing Pretrained Diffusion Models
… motion from a small number of casually captured selfies, selectively editing portraits while preserving fine-grained identity features, and reconstructing plausible painting processes from a single finished artwork. Across these settings, the desired outputs are visually complete, while the …
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Investigation of Photographic and Digital Methods for Odontological Comparison to aid with Human Identification
… study focussed on integrating 3D imaging with 2D selfies and to evaluate its feasibility in dental identification using photographs. A pilot study was designed and conducted by the PI in a similar way to the photographic superimposition study using 2D-3D method. The sample consisted of ten 3D …
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(Un)Social Media: A Content Analysis of the Centralized Self on Twitter
… visually represented in the form of photoshopped selfies and the process of public apology known as “undouching.” The political argument section surveys the social media battle surrounding Native American protests over a proposed oil pipeline through North Dakota. In this third case study, users …
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“WE ARE JUST EVERYDAY PEOPLE AND WOMEN”: AN EXAMINATION OF SELF-PRESENTATION OF NBA WIVES AND THE TWO-PERSON CAREER ON INSTAGRAM
… in their own career ambitions (2.70%) and within selfies (6.2%). Blogging NBA wives, however, were found to have statistically significant (c2 = 501.46, p = .00) more self-presentations of selfies (26.70%) and her career ambitions (13.80%) and low rates of presentations that indicated her …
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Chiasma: Plural Selves on Ink and Paper
… So in a sense these figures express multiple selfies or are multiple self portraits.</p> <p>Geometric shapes outlined in gold overlays the figures and act as a placeholders for the ropes motifs that appears in my previous works, in a sense they “bound” the figures and at the same time, display …