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Selfies at Horror Sites: Dark Tourism, Ghoulish Souvenirs and Digital Narcissism

Data publikacji: 08.12.2017

Zeszyty Prasoznawcze, 2017, Tom 60, Numer 2 (230), s. 405 - 423

https://doi.org/10.4467/22996362PZ.17.026.7306

Autorzy

Magdalena Hodalska
Instytut Dziennikarstwa, Mediów i Komunikacji Społecznej Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, ul. prof. Stanisława Łojasiewicza 4 30-348 Kraków
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9620-5913 Orcid
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Tytuły

Selfies at Horror Sites: Dark Tourism, Ghoulish Souvenirs and Digital Narcissism

Abstrakt

Selfies at Horror Sites: Dark Tourism, Ghoulish Souvenirs and Digital Narcissism
 
Taking self-portraits at horror sites, like concentration camps, Ground Zero or disaster stricken areas, has become a growing trend on social networking sites. The paper aims to discuss the cultural phenomenon of macabre selfies in the light of dark tourism and digital narcissism. Horror covered in the media becomes an attractive background for the ultimate selfies which are a teenagers’ way of celebrating life in places of death. These sometimes humorous self-portraits are ghoulish souvenirs providing emotional detachment, and at the same time a link to a greater media narrative. The interdisciplinary study is rooted in photography research, cultural and memory studies, and digital media research. The paper discusses the relationships of dark tourism and the media, kitschy souvenirs and digital memorialization of traumatic events. 

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Informacje: Zeszyty Prasoznawcze, 2017, Tom 60, Numer 2 (230), s. 405 - 423

Typ artykułu: Oryginalny artykuł naukowy

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Selfies at Horror Sites: Dark Tourism, Ghoulish Souvenirs and Digital Narcissism

Autorzy

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9620-5913

Magdalena Hodalska
Instytut Dziennikarstwa, Mediów i Komunikacji Społecznej Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, ul. prof. Stanisława Łojasiewicza 4 30-348 Kraków
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9620-5913 Orcid
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Instytut Dziennikarstwa, Mediów i Komunikacji Społecznej Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, ul. prof. Stanisława Łojasiewicza 4 30-348 Kraków

Publikacja: 08.12.2017

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