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

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Singer-songwriter Nina Nesbitt talks about the song she wrote about the phenomenon.

The selfie as a cultural form of photography, and singer-songwriter Nina Nesbitt talks about the song she wrote about the phenomenon. From June 2015.

Snowboarder Aimee Fuller presents the second part of her series exploring the significance of the selfie. 

In today's programme, 19 year old singer songwriter Nina Nesbitt talks about her song 'Selfies'. Nina has used social media to communicate with her fans since she was 15 and explains how it has helped her develop her career. She wrote the song to explain why people take selfies in their relationships and the image that they want to present about themselves. She discusses why people want to take the best picture of themselves in a selfie

Katrina Sluis from the Photographers Gallery discusses the selfie as a cultural form of photography and explains how photographers are interested in it as a new form, using networks like Instagram.

David Houghton, a lecturer at Birmingham University Business School, specialises in research into online relationship development. He explains how the selfie is received in different ways by different groups on social networks. He says this means people undertake 'impression management' to convey an impression to groups on their network.

The criticism by musician Damon Albarn of the young generation of musicians for being self absorbed as 'the selfie generation' is questioned by Economist writer Jeremy Cliffe who says, although it is a self centred activity, it is also a social activity. He says it channels instincts through a new form of technology.

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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