مؤلف: Katrin Tiidenberg Airi-Alina Allaste

Airi-Alina Allaste is Professor of Sociology at Tallinn University, Estonia. Her research, publications and teaching mainly focus on youth lifestyles, subcultures and participation. She also teaches qualitative methods to both graduate and PhD students. She has served as Working Package Leader and National Coordinator for various international projects, including the FP7-funded project “Memory, Youth, Political Legacy and Civic Engagement”, and is currently Vice-President of the Estonian National Sociological Association.Katrin Tiidenberg is completing her PhD dissertation at Tallinn University, Estonia, where she lectures in Sociology, Internet Studies and Research Methods. Her current research seeks to explain how photos (especially selfies) are used in people”s self-projects and in wider cultural narratives. Her scholarly interests include how self-exploration, community building and online interaction highlight issues of gender, sexuality and embodiment.