Authenticity, Captioned: Hashtags, Emojis, and Visibility Politics in Alok Vaid-Menon’s Selfie Captions
| dc.contributor.author | Morse, Nicole | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-21T00:30:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-06-21 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Within social media visibility campaigns, selfie captions usually work to produce coherent identity categories, linking disparate selfies together through hashtags. Furthering visibility politics, such selfie captions claim that authentic identities can be made visible through selfies and can be described and defined by these captions. However, selfie captions by the trans artist Alok Vaid-Menon challenge the assumption that selfies and their captions can make authentic identity legible. Through hashtags, emojis, and punning text, Vaid-Menon’s selfie captions interrogate visibility politics from within one of visibility politics most popular contemporary tools, demonstrating how social media can be used to theorize representation. | |
| dc.description.uri | https://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/1240 | |
| dc.format.extent | 11 pages | |
| dc.genre | journal articles | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2rhac-8vzw | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Morse, Nicole Erin. “Authenticity, Captioned: Hashtags, Emojis, and Visibility Politics in Alok Vaid-Menon’s Selfie Captions.” M/C Journal 20, no. 3 (2017). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1240. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1240 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/40900 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | M/C Journal | |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Gender & Women's Studies | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Language, Literacy, and Culture Department | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Media and Communication Studies | |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en | |
| dc.subject | politics of visibility | |
| dc.title | Authenticity, Captioned: Hashtags, Emojis, and Visibility Politics in Alok Vaid-Menon’s Selfie Captions | |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dcterms.creator | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4688-2454 |
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