{"id":10,"date":"2025-10-28T00:09:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2025-11-10T00:47:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T00:47:32","slug":"overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/selfiecity.net\">Selfiecity<\/a> explores how people take and share selfies across different cities around the world. Using over&nbsp;650,000 Instagram photos&nbsp;collected in one week, the team filtered this down to&nbsp;3,200 single person selfies&nbsp;to study how posing, facial expressions, and self representation vary across cultures. The project combines&nbsp;data science, cultural analysis, and visual storytelling&nbsp;to turn everyday selfies into insights about identity and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think this project is important because it shows how even ordinary social media activity can reveal&nbsp;larger cultural patterns. By analyzing selfies, Selfiecity makes digital culture measurable and highlights how&nbsp;technology, identity, and society&nbsp;intersect in ways that feel both relevant and surprising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Project details: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Creators:&nbsp;Lev Manovich, Moritz Stefaner, Alise Tifentale, Daria Trubnikova, Emanuel Kao, and others.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Institutions:&nbsp;Cultural Analytics Lab and international collaborators.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cities studied:&nbsp;Bangkok, Berlin, Moscow, New York City, S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Timeline:&nbsp;December 4\u201312, 2013. Project launched in 2014.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Website:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/selfiecity.net\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">selfiecity.net<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Digital humanities:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Combines quantitative data with qualitative interpretation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Creates public, interactive data visualizations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Makes digital culture measurable.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shows how digital humanities connects&nbsp;technology, society, and human expression.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-16-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-16-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-16-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-16-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-16-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-16-1140x641.png 1140w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-16.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selfiecity explores how people take and share selfies across different cities around the world. Using over&nbsp;650,000 Instagram photos&nbsp;collected in one week, the team filtered this down to&nbsp;3,200 single person selfies&nbsp;to study how posing, facial expressions, and self representation vary across cultures. The project combines&nbsp;data science, cultural analysis, and visual storytelling&nbsp;to turn everyday selfies into insights about identity and society. I think this project is important because it shows how even ordinary social media activity can reveal&nbsp;larger cultural patterns. By analyzing selfies, Selfiecity makes digital culture measurable and highlights how&nbsp;technology, identity, and society&nbsp;intersect in ways that feel both relevant and surprising. Project details: Digital humanities:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}