Protest selfie and social construction of meaning: An approach from social semiotics

This article suggests a theoretical approach, from Bajtin and Voloshinov's social semiotic, to a textual format which has been widely used due to the popularization of Internet, mobile digital devices, and social networks. This modality is known as protest selfie. In this work it is affirmed that the users of social networks - through the above mentioned multimodal political messages-demonstrate, protest, dialogue, and execute social agency. This is possible thanks to the instrumentalization of codes, and the subversion of the traditional uses of photography.