Exploring selfie practices and their geographies in the digital society.
Drawing on a practical perspective and a posthuman approach, this article maps the quotidian digital geographies of selfie practices. The empirical analysis of this research is based on a qualitative study that took place in a Chinese city – Guangzhou. The empirical sections of this research investi...
| Publicado en: | Geographical Journal Vol. 187; no. 3; pp. 240 - 253 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2021
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