What Do Your Selfies Say About You?

Meg McGuire
ENGL 397: Digital Rhetoric
1 min readSep 8, 2018

What does your selfie say about your digital identity?

For today you were asked to have access to three to selfies. Please post them in a Medium post (if you are uncomfortable posting them, please email them to me so I alone can see them).

Once you have posted them, begin to think about what kind of identity you are crafting with them. Write a post considering to accompany your selfies that consider the following questions:

  • How do your selfies perform race/ethnicity, social/economic status, sexuality/gender as a group?
  • What choices do you make to present yourself and what does this say about you: Clothing, pose, facial expression
  • How do you frame the picture to construct meaning about your image?Background, lighting, proximity, angle of the camera
  • Are there other elements (people, animals, objects…) and what do they add to your identity in the picture?
  • Does the image/do the images portray one identity trait more than others? Why/how?
  • Did you “compose” these with intentions as the “Writing in the Moment” article suggests?

(Big ups to Mark C. Marino at USC for this assignment posted at his Medium)

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Meg McGuire
ENGL 397: Digital Rhetoric

English Professor. Non-tenured track. Michigander, New Mexican, Delawarian, Pennslyvanian.