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    Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing To Us
    Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing To Us
    Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing To Us
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    Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing To Us

    Written by Will Storr

    Narrated by Shaun Grindell

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    We are living in an age of heightened individualism. Success is a personal responsibility. Our culture tells us that to succeed is to be slim, rich, happy, extroverted, popular-flawless. We have become self-obsessed. And our expectation of perfection comes at a cost. Millions are suffering under the torture of this impossible fantasy. The pressure to conform to this ideal has changed who we are.

    It was not always like this. To explain how we got here, award-winning journalist Will Storr leads us on a "terrific tour through the history of self-obsession" (NPR, On Point) that explores the origins of this notion of the perfect self that torments so many of us: Where does this ideal come from? Why is it so powerful? Is there any way to break its spell?

    Full of thrilling and unexpected connections among history, psychology, economics, neuroscience, and more, Selfie is an unforgettable book that makes sense of who we have become. Ranging from Ancient Greece, through the Christian Middle Ages, to the self-esteem evangelists of 1980s California, the rise of the "selfie" generation, and the era of hyper-individualism in which we live now, Selfie tells the epic tale of the person we all know so intimately-because it's us.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 23, 2018
    ISBN9781541445260
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    Will Storr

    Will Storr es novelista y periodista, sus historias aparecen en suplementos de medios destacados como The Observer Magazine, Seven Magazine (Sunday Telegraph), The Sunday Times Magazine y The Guardian Weekend. Es editor colaborador de la revista Esquire y de GQ Australia. Sus premiados documentales radiofónicos se han emitido en BBC World. Ha informado desde campos de refugiados en África, departamentos devastados por la guerra de la Colombia rural y las remotas comunidades aborígenes de Australia. Ha sido nombrado Nuevo Periodista del Año y Escritor de Reportajes del Año, y ha ganado un premio del Club Nacional de Prensa por su excelencia. En 2010, su investigación sobre la industria de la carne de canguro ganó el Premio Australian Food Media al mejor periodismo de investigación y, en 2012, recibió el Premio One World Press y el Premio de Amnistía Internacional por su trabajo para The Observer sobre la violencia sexual contra los hombres. En 2013, su serie radiofónica de la BBC An Unspeakable Act ganó el Premio AIB al mejor documental de investigación. Es autor galardonado de cinco libros aclamados por la crítica, entre ellos la novela The Hunger y The Howling of Killian Lone, imparte clases de narración popular en Londres y ha sido invitado a presentar su taller Science of Storytelling a lo largo de todo el mundo, desde Bangkok a Estambul o el Parlamento Europeo.

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