Goals

Visual self representation:

  • Goal: Understand visual self representation on social media by identifying patterns in how people pose and express emotion in selfies.
  • Audience: Researchers, students, and the general public interested in media, communication, and visual culture.
  • Digital Humanities Connection: Selfiecity uses computational analysis and interactive visualizations to study visual data at a large scale, showing how digital humanities tools can turn everyday social media activity into insights about culture and identity.