Digital Technology Age: Images and Filters in Relation to Self-Representation on Social Media

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jnme.202410309

Author(s)

Qian Chen

Affiliation(s)

School of Digital Arts, Chengdu Vocational University of the Arts, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Abstract

This essay will deal with the following aspects of the question that explore the implications of the development of digital images and filters for the social media and software, how people's self-presence reflects images and filters on social media and technology photo editing tools, and explore the self-representation related and determined by images and selfies.

Keywords

Filters; Selfies; Digital Image; Self-representation

References

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