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 during this period, I delineate how Instagrammers take subject positions to negotiate their (im)mobile selfhood in the online-offline nexus. I contend that as the Instagrammers negotiate their own invisibility and sociality during the lockdown, their physical bodies are reconfigured digitally as part of their multimodal self-presentation, troubling the traditional (im)mobile divide. While this study illuminates the democratic potential of Instagram, it also contemplates the extent of an individual’s agency on a global scale.

在本文中，我研究了Instagram使用者如何在COVID-19早期大流行期间身体不灵活，如何将自己重新构造为智能体和数字移动终端。通过研究在此期间出现或流行的四种类型的帖子，我描述了Instagram使用者如何在在线离线关系中以主题立场来谈判自己的（移动）移动性。我认为，随着Instagram使用者在锁定期间谈判自己的隐形性和社交性，他们的身体被数字化重新配置为他们多模式自我展示的一部分，从而困扰了传统的（im）行动不便。这项研究阐明了Instagram的民主潜力，同时也考虑了个人代理机构在全球范围内的规模。