Friending the Virgin: Some Thoughts on the Prehistory of Facebook

SAGE Open

Larry Friedlander¹ 

关键词: social media;    art history;    portraiture;    Facebook;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2158244011415423

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

This article looks at how previous practice of portraiture prepared the way for self-presentation on social networking sites. A portrait is not simply an exercise in the skillful or “realistic” depiction of a subject. Rather, it is a rhetorical exercise in visual description and persuasion and a site of intricate communicative processes. A long evolution of visual culture, intimately intertwined with evolving notions of identity and society, was necessary to create the conditions for the particular forms of self-representation we encounter on Facebook. Many of these premodern strategies prefigure ones we encounter on Facebook. By delineating the ways current practices reflect earlier ones, we can set a baseline from which we can isolate the precise novelty of current practice in social networking sites.

【 授权许可】

CC BY