@article {1743, title = {Selfies in {\textquoteleft}mommyblogging{\textquoteright}: An emerging visual genre}, journal = {Discourse, Context \& Media}, volume = {20}, year = {2017}, pages = {239 - 247}, 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 {\textquoteleft}selfies{\textquoteright} 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{\textquoteright}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 {\textquoteleft}the self{\textquoteright} 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.

}, issn = {22116958}, doi = {10.1016/j.dcm.2017.05.005}, url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221169581630174X}, author = {Zappavigna, Michele and Zhao, Sumin} }