Abstract
Susan Driver’s chapter works to reconceptualize social media as a dynamic realm of affective practices by marginalized youth. Her chapter addresses how youth selfies are framed in ways that fixate on normalizing conceptions of self and representation. Following creative and relational contours of queer youth selfie circulation on Tumblr, Driver is interested in methods that stay close to the flux of affective relational experiences in terms of a process of becoming. She refuses epistemological certainties, leaving room for doubts and uncertainty, her essay turns toward a multiplicity of ways youth make selfies and do things with them that exceed our expectations and prescribed judgments leaving room for imaginative alternatives.
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Driver, S. (2018). Becoming More Than a Self: Affective Relations and Queer Selfie Lines of Flight. In: Driver, S., Coulter, N. (eds) Youth Mediations and Affective Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98971-6_4
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