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… Professor Ramona Pringle, who teaches at the RTA School of Media at Ryerson University in Toronto, says she does not agree with folks who label selfie fanatics as narcissists.
“I can see that as a first response, and I can see why museums worry about selfie sticks and people damaging things as they rush to take a photo of themselves. But I don’t think it’s anything new for people to try to say ‘I was there.’”
“You can get images of any place in the world on Google or Streetview,” she said. “What is different with a selfie is you can make that ‘I was there’ statement.”
Visitors wandering around Versailles or Old Montreal with iPads are merely trying to document and share their experiences, Pringle said – something travellers have done for centuries. And while there is nothing wrong with a bit of personal expression, that doesn’t mean we have to aim for the top of the YouTube charts.
“It comes back to awe and wonder, really, to people putting a flag in the ground to prove they were there. We want things to be personal, and I don’t think it’s all bad.”
She’s got a point. I was struck by the number of self-portraits I saw at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam last year. One could argue they are not unlike the selfies of his generation. Different tools, same idea.