The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year is selfie. Read all about it everywhere.
BBC News site
The Guardian
Oxford Dictionaries
Daily Mail
And Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian describes it as "like so much else in the digital world – all about "me," but revealing a sometimes desperate urge to find an "us"".
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