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In her book
The Selfie Generation, Alicia Eler explores the impact of a cultural phenomenon.
If you're an Instagram user, you've probably noticed a hashtag called #2017bestnine circulating in your feed during the past few weeks. It's from the Top Nine app, first launched in 2015, on which users enter their Instagram handle into a field and an algorithm forms a collage of the nine most popular photos from their accounts in that calendar year; people then post the montage on their Instagram pages.…