Global Instapoetry

Instagram started in San Francisco, yet it has been clear that its usage spread worldwide. The influence of this global outreach is apparent not only the platform’s general use, however, but unique content trends as well. In particular, there Instapoetry, movement minimalist poetry taken and rest world by storm since 2018. Although Instapoetry was dominated writers based English-speaking countries at outset, now become extremely popular across multiple nations languages, a truly transnational translingual cultural phenomenon. As these emerge from vast landscape, critical to examine how various Instapoets cultures resemble each other some ways, vastly diverge others. This series essays seek transglobal evolves within capitalistic platform, studying manner users may escape or re-establish digital hegemonic structures. From Malawi Greece, India Norway, First Nations Latin America, pieces show alternatively use social media poems tools weaponry, commercialisation, protest, healing.