Biometrics: Feminist Media Throry Looks At Selfiecity '

Alex Bullock 9/13/2015 Selfiecity Paper “A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and shared via social media”, the definition of a selfie by Oxford Dictionary. In today's world, selfies are more of the social "norm" of telling everyone what you're doing, like at a restaurant before you get your food. A group of scientists decided to take the selfie to the next level and do research in 5 major cities, Bangkok, Berlin, New York, Sao Paolo and Moscow. They took all of their findings and compiled it into a website called “Selfiecity”. If you visit the website, you can find a variety of different ways they categorized all of the different pictures they pulled, from their
As well as talking about what a selfie is, she talks about how the selfie, or self-portrait, dates back to as early as the Renaissance. After, she gets into talking about the website itself and the group behind the site. “The Selfiecity project was created by a mostly male team…” and how the group behind the site collected over 600,000 Instagram pictures from 5 different major cities “Bangkok, Berlin, Moscow, New York, and Sao Paulo.” After collecting all of the data and sorting through it, they took 640 pictures from each city and that’s what they did all of their work on. After going through the pictures, they found that in each city, there were more female selfies than there was male selfies, and then take it even further and break it down into the age of the person, gender, their pose, their mouth (open or closed), if they were wearing glasses, their mood, or if their eyes were opened or