Photographic taxonomy: a methodological proposal for the research of selfies in social media

Abstract

The complexities that involve selfies could not be contemplated in a single article. Thus, our goals are to provide a brief epistemological framework that allows a plausible interpretation of this photographic genre and to present the methodological approaches to the selection of a corpus for a possible self-portrait analysis on Instagram. We conclude that, despite the polysemic nature of social networks, it is possible a taxonomy of selfie applicable to other current photographic genres in media culture.