Both SelfieCity and Teen Vogue discuss the phenomenon that has become "the selfie". Selfies matter because they are being used around the world on social media as a form of self expression. The use of selfies has become a trademark for social media sites like Instagram and Snapchat. The topic of selfies relates to previous readings like Raby's Discourse article and Lesley's Framing Youth. A selfie relates to all five discourses that Raby talks about in her article. Teenagers and selfies are being labeled as a social problem. Also, Lesley talks about the ways researchers have gone about understanding youth is to seek out the spaces in which teens have created for themselves. This is what selfiecity has done by researching the use of selfies around the world.
The media has put teenagers and selfies together and displayed the two in a negative light. Selfies overall are not dangerous, but the media focuses on the isolated incidents involving risk and selfies. The article I hyperlinked is about the heightened risk that teenagers have of getting lice from taking selfies. The first sentence, "Parents, lock up your kids and take away their cell phones, because you never know who they are rubbing scalps with when they take selfies" (Mullins). This quote is a perfect example of the class theme teenagers are not some alien life form. The whole article is completely ridiculous, and acknowledges how ridiculous the claim is that teens are at a higher risk of getting lice. Raby talks about the storm and at-risk as discourses related to teenagers. The music video #SELFIE displays many of those discourses throughout such as sex, alcohol, and drugs. This shows selfies as like a gateway drug to all these "risky activities".
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