Social media photography: construing subjectivity in Instagram images

Visual Communication

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 271-292

  Zappavigna, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Instagram; motherhood; multimodal discourse analysis; point of view; social media; subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977505512     PISSN: 14703572     EISSN: 17413214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470357216643220     Document Type: Article

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