Selfiecity has allowed multiple academics to publish research using the data from the project.

Elizabeth Losh, Director of the Equality Lab, and Professor of English and American Studies at the College of William and Mary, published an article using data from selfiecity during her studies at the University of California, San Diego. The article is titled: “Beyond Biometrics: Feminist Media Theory Looks at Selfiecity” and the abstract is shown below:

As large-scale media visualizations from the Selfiecity database of images shot in five cities on four continents indicate, the selfie has become a truly transnational genre that is as much about placemaking as it is about the narrowcasting of particular faces and bodies. At the same time, the scholarly literature around this specific form of self-representation through closely distant mobile photography has struggled to keep up with theorizing emergent new media practices that utilize lenses, screens, mirrors, and armatures in novel ways and generate compositions with distinctive framing and posing that mark belonging to selfie taxonomies

Losh, E. (2014). Beyond Biometrics: Feminist Media Theory Looks at Selfiecity. Selfiecity. Retrieved April 4, 2023, from https://selfiecity.net/#theory