TY - JOUR
TI - Selfies at Horror Sites: Dark Tourism, Ghoulish Souvenirs and Digital Narcissism
AU - Hodalska, Magdalena
TI - Selfies at Horror Sites: Dark Tourism, Ghoulish Souvenirs and Digital Narcissism
AB - 
	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. 
VL - 2017
IS - Volume 60, Issue 2 (230)
PY - 2017
SN - 0555-0025
C1 - 2299-6362
SP - 405
EP - 423
DO - 10.4467/22996362PZ.17.026.7306
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zeszyty-prasoznawcze/article/selfies-at-horror-sites-dark-tourism-ghoulish-souvenirs-and-digital-narcissism
KW - dark tourism
KW - selfies
KW - memory
KW - consumption
KW - trauma
KW - digital narcissism