Selfies in 'mommyblogging': An emerging visual genre. (December 2017)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Selfies in 'mommyblogging': An emerging visual genre. (December 2017)
- Main Title:
- Selfies in 'mommyblogging': An emerging visual genre
- Authors:
- Zappavigna, Michele
Zhao, Sumin - Abstract:
- Abstract: This article employs multimodal discourse analysis to explore how mothers represent their everyday experiences of motherhood on Instagram through different forms of self-portraiture. It investigates whether the 'selfies' that they share can be characterized as a visual genre and identifies four subgenres: presented, mirrored, inferred and implied selfies. The article illustrates the different ways in which the photographer's perspective can be represented in each subgenre. The aim is to show that the function of the selfie as a multimodal genre is not solely to represent 'the self' but rather to enact intersubjectivity, that is, to generate various possibilities of relations between perspectives on a particular topic, issue, or experience and hence to open up potential for negotiating different points of view.
- Is Part Of:
- Discourse, context & media. Volume 20(2017)
- Journal:
- Discourse, context & media
- Issue:
- Volume 20(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 20, Issue 2017 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 20
- Issue:
- 2017
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0020-2017-0000
- Page Start:
- 239
- Page End:
- 247
- Publication Date:
- 2017-12
- Subjects:
- Selfies -- Social media -- Motherhood -- Affiliation -- Discourse analysis
Discourse analysis -- Periodicals
Digital media -- Periodicals
Mass media and language -- Periodicals
Communication -- Periodicals
Communication
Digital media
Discourse analysis
Mass media and language
Periodicals
401.4105 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/22116958 ↗
http://www.sciencedirect.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1016/j.dcm.2017.05.005 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2211-6958
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- Legaldeposit
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