John Berger, Paris Hilton, and The Rich Kids of Instagram: The Social and Economic Inequality of Image Sharing and Production of Power Through Self-Promotion

Description

This thesis updates John Berger's work of critical visual theory, Ways of Seeing, to accommodate emerging web 2.0 technologies and new social media platforms. It analyzes the symbols of wealth and status encoded in both 15th century oil paintings and contemporary Instagram posts and attempts to dissect how American celebrity culture complicates methods of self-promotion and upscale emulation.

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1. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/545
2. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1580&context=scripps_theses

Tags

media studies

critical studies

Instagram

consumer culture

art

Film and Media Studies

Visual Studies

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:CLAREMONT/oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:scripps_theses-1580
Date	01 January 2015
Creators	Gallagher, Meghan M
Publisher	Scholarship @ Claremont
Source Sets	Claremont Colleges
Detected Language	English
Type	text
Format	application/pdf
Source	Scripps Senior Theses
Rights	© 2014 Meghan M. Gallagher, default