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Me, My Selfie and I: Aimee Fuller's Generation Game

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Olympic snowboarder Aimee Fuller's personal look at the selfie phenomenon.

The 23-year-old Olympic snowboarder discusses what selfies means to her and the significance of the whole phenomenon. From June 2015.

It's two years since the Oxford English Dictionary made 'selfie' its word of the year. Since then, 'selfie' has been used to describe the 'selfie generation' and recently, the 'selfie election'. Aimee Fuller is a 23 year old snowboarder who competed at last year's Winter Olympics - she explores the selfie phenomenon and asks whether it really defines her generation. Aimee explains how social media is part and parcel of what she does as an athlete, helping her to communicate with her fans - and the selfie is an important element of that.

The programme explores the broader significance of the selfie as a form of photography. What sort of a photograph is the selfie and what do photographers make of it? Katrina Sluis from the Photographers Gallery in London puts it into the context of self portraits.

Why have younger people taken to the selfie with such enthusiasm and what does that tell us about their social attitudes? Economist writer, Jeremy Cliffe explains how the selfie generation use social media and why.

Producer: Philip Reevell
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Olympic snowboarder Aimee Fuller explores the selfie phenomenon

Olympic snowboarder Aimee Fuller discusses what the selfie means to her and seeks to explain the wider significance of the selfie phenomenon

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