From your outfit of the day to your meal at a restaurant, from gym gains to a gathering of friends, Instagram is a place for the visualization of everyday life. Through the use of hashtags, people indicate something of what the photo is about. While some hashtags have obvious visuals, such as #selfie, #ootd, or #food, the visual depiction of more abstract concepts like #freedom is less obvious. This project explores the visualization of values on Instagram, identifying patterns in the depiction of values across 20 prominent hashtags.

We will present some of the findings from this paper at the AoIR 2020 Virtual Conference.