Selfie An Art Or Sanity.docx

SELFIE AN ART OR SANITY

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Research in MAPEH Secondary Education Field of Specialization: Arts

By: Janerose A. Aguillon Chabel Negru Kyle Patrick I. Go Fred Joven A. Globio February, 2019

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BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE

In today’s generation many of us are equipped with smartphones with high resolution camera where we can take a photograph. Many millennials engage to photography with the use of their smartphones. Photography means “the art or practice of taking and processing photographs.” (Oxford Dictionary). The word ‘selfie’ was first used in an Australian Internet forum in 2002 (Tomassoni, Rosella., et al, 2016) and entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013 as word of the year (Wade,2014), a noun which means “a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and shared via social media.” In today’s generation it won’t be a surprise if we’re one of those people who loves taking a selfie. People take selfie at school, at home, at the mall, at the beach, in some landmarks, underwater, and almost anywhere. Taking and sharing selfies have become common with the advent of various smartphones and in social media (Sung, Lee, Kim, and Choi, 2016). Which leads us to the question, why take a photo in almost everything that we are doing? What is the implication of taking too much photo of yourself? According to Singh, Sanchita & Tripathi, Kaushlendra (2016) there have been 47 deaths all around the world and 14 just in India since rise of this photography

style. Taking selfie is as if becoming a necessity in this era and becoming an addiction. Balakrishan, Janarthanan and Griffiths, Mark (2017) said that in 2014 stories appeared in international media claiming that the condition of ‘selfitis’ (an obsessive taking of selfies) was to be classed as a mental disorder by the American Psychiatric Association and classified the condition with borderline, the acute and chronic level. Moreover, according to e.g., Martino (2014) those who post selfies are narcissistic on the other hand Wortham (2013) believes that selfie is a kind of exploration, which allow a person to be more genuine and lift up his or her selfesteem. Wortham (2013) also added that it is also a means of communication. For this reason, the researchers would like to study the relationship between photography as an art to selfie as a disorder.