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Hi Everybody,
IT’S TIME!!! My name is Elise and I’m a grad student at UW-Madison. I’m looking for interview participants for my MA thesis all about selfies! I’m hoping to collect personal narratives and self-descriptions about your experiences with and thoughts on selfies (taking them, sharing them, posting them, seeing them) and to explore connections between selfies and community, identity, sexuality, and self-care.
Criteria: I’m especially hoping to interview people between the ages of 18 and 30 who either identify as women or whose identities don’t fit the gender binary. I will not ask any specific questions about your sexual practices or solicit any sexually explicit images. I will be collecting interview participants’ selfies (as they choose to share them!) but I’m not interested in explicit images, images of anyone other than you, images that involve illegal activities, or images you don’t want to share publicly.
If you do choose to participate I’ll walk you through an informed consent process before the interview and answer any questions you might have. You’re free to stop and withdraw from the study at any time. Nothing about the interview will be confidential. I will be asking you to share selfies and talk about yourself in relation to selfies. You should know that you will be identifiable in anything that I publish and/or present.
This is so close to my heart and I feel like I’ve been thinking about it and planning it forever and I’m super excited that this process is finally happening!
If you think you might be interested in participating please contact me at ecnagy@wisc.edu for more info and share this post widely.
♥ Elise