Kinesthetic Sociability
...the selfie is a “gestural image” and that we should not understand its aesthetics purely in visual terms. Rather, selfies conspicuously integrate still images into a technocultural circuit of corporeal social energy that I will call kinesthetic sociability. This circuit connects the bodies of individuals, their mobility through physical and informational spaces, and the micro-bodily hand and eye movements they use to operate digital interfaces. (1608) Frosh, Paul. “The Gestural Image: The Selfie, Photography Theory, and Kinesthetic Sociability.” International Journal of Communication (Online), 2015, pp. 1607–1628.
How about selfies that do not contain faces or bodies (or just hands and forearms)? Can it still retain kinesthetic sociability? I find Studyblr photos to have a similar energy as it mediates feelings of studying, college/student life and education. What about front-facing vlogging/videos? Many such videos are filmed on the move.
Links to Studyblr examples can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
