Illustration by Kotryna Zukauskaite
In one sense, our smartphones, with all these selfies, are now our pocket mirrors, inspiring the same self-conscious anxieties that mirrors provoked. Yet taking a selfie is also different from peering into a mirror: The mirror is mostly private, but every time we pose for a selfie, “we’re aware of its potential for publicness,” says Alicia Eler, author of The Selfie Generation.
Read the full article by Clive Thompson here at Smithsonian Magazine: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/history-mirror-selfie-culture-180976038/
The story got picked up by BoingBoing.net: https://boingboing.net/2020/11/18/the-invention-of-mirrors-and-why-they-matter.html
