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Selfies|The Selfie and the Other: Consuming Viral Tragedy and Social Media (After)lives
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Brager, Jenna |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | On December 27, 2013, Lebanese teenager Omar Bekdash took a selfie on his smartphone: “‘The guys always take selfies, so this time I decided I would take one,’” Bekdash later told the Daily Mail (Rasmussen, 2014, para. 8). The resulting image is low resolution, a picture of four teenage boys hanging out on a bench on a nondescript street in downtown Beirut. Behind them in the image is a gold SUV that one would not notice had it not been circled in red (see Figure 1). In a matter of moments after the selfie was taken, the SUV exploded, mortally wounding the boy in the red sweatshirt, 16-year-old Mohammad al-Chaar. |
| Starting Page | 12 |
| Ending Page | 12 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 9 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/download/3137/1391 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
