Basically I'm looking for some research that takes seriously the construction of the image of a selfie and seeks to establish a paradigm of possibilities for selfies, perhaps with some correlation between types of image and the gender, age, etc of the user. Maybe something along the lines of Goffman's classic study "Gendered Advertisements"
Please excuse a flippant reply, but I would just refer to it as narcissism.
Sorry. Please don't let me spoil a really good question.
I don't think your response is flippant. That is the line taken by some of the psychological research relating to 'selfies' where the researcher tries to link a communicative act to supposed characteristics of the performer of the act. I'm trying to avoid that approach because it seems to beg a lot of other questions, not least what is meant by 'narcissism'.
Just as a postscript to some of the suggestions above have found an excellent resource at:
http://selfiecity.net/
and an excellent article at
Paul Frosh: Article in International Journal of Communication 9:1607-1628 · January 2015
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