Abstract

The advancement of Web 2.0 technologies has drastically extended the realm of self-expression, to the extent that personal and potentially controversial are widely shared with public viewers. This study examined user-generated of self-injury (SI) uploaded on a popular photo-sharing site Flickr.com, to explore how the photo uploaders represent their wounded bodies, whether there are any emergent discursive and visual conventions that (re)define photographs of SI, and whether these emergent conventions affirm or resist dominant cultural discourses of SI. 516 of SI uploaded by 146 Flickr members were analyzed using methods of visual content analysis and discourse analysis. The findings indicate that while dominant discourses largely determine the shaping of SI photographs, some uploaders subversively frame their wounds as a narrative of resilience, thereby transforming their wounds into an authentic source of self-expression. URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1302229

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