Authenticity, Captioned: Hashtags, Emojis, and Visibility Politics in Alok Vaid-Menon’s Selfie Captions

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dc.contributor.authorMorse, Nicole
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-21T00:30:31Z
dc.date.issued2017-06-21
dc.description.abstractWithin 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.urihttps://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/1240
dc.format.extent11 pages
dc.genrejournal articles
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2rhac-8vzw
dc.identifier.citationMorse, 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.urihttps://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1240
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/40900
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherM/C Journal
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Gender & Women's Studies
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Language, Literacy, and Culture Department
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Media and Communication Studies
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en
dc.subjectpolitics of visibility
dc.titleAuthenticity, Captioned: Hashtags, Emojis, and Visibility Politics in Alok Vaid-Menon’s Selfie Captions
dc.typeText
dcterms.creatorhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4688-2454

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