Morse, Nicole Erin
University of Chicago
United States
Nicole Erin Morse is a PhD candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago where they are writing a dissertation that examines selfies and self-representational art by trans women and transfeminine people, analyzing how these artists and selfie creators use selfie aesthetics to interrogate intimacy, narcissism, visibility, doubling, and the archive. Their research has been published in Porn Studies, Feminist Media Studies, and Jump Cut.
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ArticlesIntroductionWithin 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...Read more
