Selfies in ‘mommyblogging’: An emerging visual genre

摘要: Abstract This article employs multimodal discourse analysis to explore how mothers represent their everyday experiences of motherhood on Instagram through different forms self-portraiture. It investigates whether the ‘selfies’ that they share can be characterized as a visual genre and identifies four subgenres: presented, mirrored, inferred implied selfies. The illustrates ways in which photographer’s perspective represented each subgenre. aim is show function selfie not solely ‘the self’ but rather enact intersubjectivity, is, generate various possibilities relations between perspectives particular topic, issue, or experience hence open up potential for negotiating points view.