Selfie-control. Il dispositivo che fotografa se stesso

The present text analyses Ellen Degeneres' viral selfie shot during this year's Academy Awards, examining the role played by the mobile devices to develop a complex and articulate discursive field. Such a field is not only a result of transmedia processes but also of filmophanic, diegetic, and iconic-configurative dynamics that places the selfie in a multifocal landscape. Reconsidering a few suggestions of Agamben and Deleuze, the discussion will focus in particular upon the question of subjectivity or de-subjectivity of the persons portrayed and of the those who use the images through mobile devices and social networks.