The rise of digital and visual communication has brought an increased focus to the places that people occupy. While places are created through various meaning-making processes, one way of establishing the meaning of a place is by inserting oneself into spaces by taking selfies. The places depicted in selfies may reflect a desire to associate oneself with the place, to make a statement challenging that place or the dominant meaning associated with it, or to create new meaning concerning the place and the self. Drawing on the concepts of Thirdspace and heterotopias, we proffer a framework for the practice of taking and sharing selfies that depict a place. We argue that people colonize points in space to reproduce, counter, or mix the meanings of places. People then both draw from and contribute to the construction of places and are motivated to “place” themselves to provide alternative or personalized perspectives of these places but also to represent their self.

数字和视觉通信的兴起使人们越来越关注人们居住的地方。虽然场所是通过各种意义创造过程创造的，但确立场所意义的一种方法是通过自拍将自己插入空间。自拍中描绘的地点可能反映了将自己与该地点联系起来的愿望，做出挑战该地点或与之相关的主导意义的陈述，或者创造关于地点和自我的新意义。借鉴第三空间和异托邦的概念，我们提供了一个框架，用于拍摄和分享描绘一个地方的自拍照。我们认为，人们殖民空间中的点是为了复制、对抗或混合地方的意义。