The image of a single face pouting at the camera on a phone clumsily extended to the perfect angle: this is just the beginning of the story, writes Nishant Shah. Every selfie triggers an avalanche of data that is generated, collated and consolidated beyond your imagination or control.
Nishant Shah
is Professor of culture, aesthetics and digital media at Leuphana University, Germany, and co-founder of the Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore, India. He is co-editor with Puthiya Purayil Sneha and Sumandro Chattapadhyay of the Digital Activism in Asia Reader (meson press, 2015).