What Do Your Selfies Say About You?

Meg McGuire
Sep 8, 2018 · 1 min read

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)

ENGL 397: Digital Rhetoric

Where the ENGL 397 community comes to compose!

Meg McGuire

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

ENGL 397: Digital Rhetoric

Where the ENGL 397 community comes to compose!

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