Toward a non-binary sense of mobility: insights from self-presentation in Instagram photography during COVID-19 pandemic

In this paper, I investigate how Instagrammers re-construct themselves as agentive and digitally mobile despite their physical immobility during the early COVID-19 pandemic. By examining four types of post that emerged or became popular period, delineate take subject positions to negotiate (im)mobile selfhood in online-offline nexus. contend own invisibility sociality lockdown, bodies are reconfigured part multimodal self-presentation, troubling traditional divide. While study illuminates democratic potential Instagram, it also contemplates extent an individual’s agency on a global scale.