Citations:selfie stick

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  • 2014, Victoria Woollaston, "The rise of the SELFIE STICK: Amateur photographers are taking photos of themselves using 'arm extenders', Daily Mail, 17 March 2014:
    The selfie stick on display at Mobile World Congress didn’t have a release date or a price.
  • 2014, Benson Ang, "Selfie sticks are hot", The Sunday Times (Singapore), 30 March 2014, page L4:
    For example, photography shop Artworkfoto in Funan DigitaLife Mall sells about five selfie sticks every day.
  • 2014, Christopher Hooten, "Introducing the 'selfie stick', because clearly there just isn't enough 'selfie' in the world", The Independent, 31 March 2014 (used in headline only)
  • 2014, Sharmila Dhal, "The selfie craze in Dubai", XPRESS, 30 April 2014:
    “It’s a selfie stick,” she explains. “Just bought it for Dh199. Helps me take cool pictures of myself, can’t wait to upload them on Instagram.”
  • 2014, Christopher Hooten, "The 600-day selfie: Man captures incredible journey around the world", The Independent, 12 May 2014:
    Motorcyclist Alex Charon used a GoPro on a selfie-stick in order to take a snap of all that he experienced during a round-the-world trip, travelling from barren deserts to lush forests and visiting over 36 countries.
  • 2014, Kam Leong Heng, "The more the merrier", Harvest Force, Issue 2, July 2014, page 1:
    Then, there was like a light-bulb moment when she discovered selfies. And recently, she saw a new gadget - the ultimate monopod that extends its arm and holds her smartphone at the other end. Yex, it is the selfie stick!
  • 2014, Kyrie Regala Baños, "Cozy coffee experience at Gensan's Post Coffee House", Edge Davao, Volume 7, Issue 81, 8 July 2014
    The coffee shop also offers free wi-fi, and being one of Gensan's selfie hotspots, which the establishment effectively supports, wherein they provide selfie sticks or mono pads[sic] for all their clients[sic] selfie needs.
  • 2014, "Don't pan this idea – it's selfie toast", Metro Herald, 18 July 2014, page 13:
    Yesterday GoMetro.ie brought you the selfie stick, now feast your eyes on the selfie toaster.
  • 2014, Geraldine Cooper, "Most dangerous selfie ever? Teens film themselves on roof of Hong Kong skyscraper", The Telegraph, 26 August 2014:
    But the scene takes a vertigo-enducing turn when photographer Daniel Lau changes the camera angle using a "selfie stick" - a retractable pole on which the camera is mounted - to reveal that they are, in fact on top of a building.
  • 2014, Tom Vosburgh, "That TIme I…Paraglided in the Swiss Alps", Towerview (Duke University), Volume 15, Issue 2, September 2014, page 7:
    After parking just off the main road, I waded my way through a throng of selfie stick-and[sic] designer suitcase-toting Asian tourists towards the meeting point, []
  • 2014 8 December, Mikkel Svane, Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global Business, John Wiley & Sons (2014), →ISBN, pages 176-177:
    We snapped another selfie (one of the guys, Royston out of our newly acquired Singapore Zopim office, introduced the Exchange to the selfie stick, and that photo is now legendary.)
  • 2014, Haley Goldberg, "Why the selfie stick is 2014’s most controversial gift", New York Post, 17 December 2014:
    While basic selfie sticks require a camera timer to take a shot, the fancier versions come with Bluetooth remotes or handle buttons to snap the shutter.
  • 2015, Yoo Jin Kwon and Kyoung-Nan Kwon, "Consuming the Objectified Self: The Quest for Authentic Self", Asian Social Science, January 2015, page 310:
    The needs of selfie takers feed into new product development such as a selfie stick that allows the ul-jang angle, a mirrorless DSLR camera with a 180-degree tilting LCD window, a motion-detecting shutter, and a camera with wireless internet for transferring images.
  • 2015 1 February, Dani K., Footballers and Louboutins, Libertine Press (2015), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    Just then she pulled a selfie stick out of her Mulberry and started taking numerous selfies of us in the limo.
  • 2015 1 April, Adi Kuntsman & Rebecca Stein, Digital Militarism: Israel's Occupation in the Social Media Age, Stanford University Press (2015), →ISBN, page 105:
    The growing popularity in Israel of so-called selfie sticks, enabling mobile self-portraiture from arm's length, has further complicated the genre.
  • 2015 1 April, Michael Grosberg, Greg Bloom, Trent Holden, Anna Kaminski, & Paul Stiles, Lonely Planet: Philippines, Lonely Planet (2015), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    Thus the key question: have you packed your compass, your snorkel, or your selfie stick?
  • 2021 January 8, Sabrina Tavernise, Matthew Rosenberg, “These Are the Rioters Who Stormed the Nation’s Capitol”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
    In the Crypt, people walked around taking photographs of the statues and themselves with their phones. One man had a selfie stick, like a tourist in a foreign land.