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Dedication

[Photo credit: Jen Berry]

For Stephen Dickter
1975–2012
Cinematographer, Scholar, Friend

Gone too soon.
We should have written this together.

Contents

Cover i

Title Page iii

Dedication v

Acknowledgments ix

1. Introduction: How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Selfie? 1

2. Reflected Beauty: The Ancient Self 29

3. Mastering the Mirror: A Renaissance of the Self 51

4. Reframing Memories: The Literary Self 77

5. Seizing the Light: Photographing Ourselves 101

6. Behind the Mask: The Psychological Self 129

7. Instapressure: The Selfie Today 153

8. Augmented and Transfigured: The Selfie Tomorrow 175

List of Illustrations 203

Notes 205

Index 223

Back Cover 229

Acknowledgments

TO MY EDITOR, BOB HOSACK, who has the patience of Job and the persistence of Nehemiah. Without your encouragement, I never would have started this project (or completed it). To Brian Bolger, Brandy Scritchfield, Jeremy Wells, Shelly MacNaughton, and the Brazos Press team, who get the job done with minimal drama. Such service is increasingly rare and refreshingly independent in a corporatized world.

To the many cities, schools, churches, and conferences that hosted my extended iGods tour. Your earnest and urgent questions regarding how to navigate the accelerated moment we find ourselves in have challenged me to dig deeper and write faster ...

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About Selfies: Searching for the Image of God in a Digital Age

Christianity Today Book Award Winner

Selfies are ubiquitous. They can be silly or serious, casual or curated. Within moments, smart phone users can capture their image and post it across multiple social media platforms to a global audience. But do we truly understand the power of image in our image-saturated age? How can we seek God and care for each other in digital spaces?

Craig Detweiler, a nationally known writer and speaker and an avid social media user, examines the selfie phenomenon, placing selfies within the long history of self-portraits in art, literature, and photography. He shows how self-portraits change our perspective of ourselves and each other in family dynamics, education, and discipleship. Challenging us to push past unhealthy obsessions with beauty, wealth, and fame, Detweiler helps us to develop a thoughtful, biblical perspective on selfies and social media and to put ourselves in proper relation to God and each other. He also explains the implications of social media for an emerging generation, making this book a useful conversation starter in homes, churches, and classrooms. Each chapter ends with discussion questions and a photo assignment for creating a selfie in response to the chapter.

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