An overview by Javier Velasco-Martin November 2008 School of Information and Library Sciences The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Some points from literature… Mayfield (2005) compares: Online Communities as top-down, place-centric, moderator-controlled, topic-driven, centralized and arthictected. SNSs as bottom-up, people-centric, user-controlled, context-driven, descentralized and self-organizing. Flickr makes use of both approaches with an extremely flexible architecture. Lerman and Jones (2006) find an important influence (55%) of Social Browsing on image views. Schmitz (2006) suggests that ontologies can be induced from Flickr tags .

Mayfield (2005) compares:

Online Communities as top-down, place-centric, moderator-controlled, topic-driven, centralized and arthictected.

SNSs as bottom-up, people-centric, user-controlled, context-driven, descentralized and self-organizing.

Flickr makes use of both approaches with an extremely flexible architecture.

Lerman and Jones (2006) find an important influence (55%) of Social Browsing on image views.

Schmitz (2006) suggests that ontologies can be induced from Flickr tags .

Some points from literature… Marlow et al (2006) propose a model of incentives for tagging: Future retrieval Contribution and sharing Attract attention Play and competition Self presentation Opinion expression Van Zwol (2007) confirms the importance of Social Browsing on Flickr and discovers that geographical closeness of visitors is negatively correlated with the photo’s popularity .

Marlow et al (2006) propose a model of incentives for tagging:

Future retrieval

Contribution and sharing

Attract attention

Play and competition

Self presentation

Opinion expression

Van Zwol (2007) confirms the importance of Social Browsing on Flickr and discovers that geographical closeness of visitors is negatively correlated with the photo’s popularity .

Flickr User Model Bryce Glass 2005

Tagging / Folksonomies

Comments, Favorites and Notes

Regional Groups

Topical Groups

Play Groups (1/3)

Play Groups (2/3)

Play Groups (3/3)

User created awards

Critique groups

Self-potrait project: 356 days

Social Browsing

Hierarchical contacts and Permissions

Tag clusters

Interestingness

Wrapup Flickr is one of the most successful and well designed photo sharing websites currently available. Its architecture mixes the best of online communities and social network sites to cater all types of user needs and motivations. Participation is further empowered by its high levels of usability, clean design, and its inherent sense of playfulness. Flickr’s design embraces its users’ creativity on many levels.

Flickr is one of the most successful and well designed photo sharing websites currently available.

Its architecture mixes the best of online communities and social network sites to cater all types of user needs and motivations.

Participation is further empowered by its high levels of usability, clean design, and its inherent sense of playfulness.

Flickr’s design embraces its users’ creativity on many levels.

References Mayfield, R. (2005). Social network dynamics and participatory politics . In J. Lebkowsky & M. Ratcliffe (Eds.), Extreme democracy (pp. 116–132). K. Lerman and L. A. Jones. Social Browsing on Flickr . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM’07), Boulder, CO, Mar 2007. Patrick Schmitz. Inducing ontology from flickr tags . In Workshop on Collaborative Web Tagging, 2006. Marlow, C. et al. (2006). Position Paper, Tagging, Taxonomy, Flickr, Article, ToRead . WWW2006, May 22–26, 2006, Edinburgh, UK. R. van Zwol. Flickr: Who is Looking . In ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2007), 2007.

Mayfield, R. (2005). Social network dynamics and participatory politics . In J. Lebkowsky & M. Ratcliffe (Eds.), Extreme democracy (pp. 116–132).

K. Lerman and L. A. Jones. Social Browsing on Flickr . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM’07), Boulder, CO, Mar 2007.

Patrick Schmitz. Inducing ontology from flickr tags . In Workshop on Collaborative Web Tagging, 2006.

Marlow, C. et al. (2006). Position Paper, Tagging, Taxonomy, Flickr, Article, ToRead . WWW2006, May 22–26, 2006, Edinburgh, UK.

R. van Zwol. Flickr: Who is Looking . In ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2007), 2007.

Bonus: my favorite Flickr Photographers This is a list of people who’s work I had never heard of before, and found through Flickr. Most of them are acknowledged photographers and make active use of Flickr as a tutoring tool for their audience of admirers. Frederico Mendes http://www.flickr.com/photos/frederico_mendes/ Sol Lang http://www.flickr.com/photos/sollang/ Eric Lafforgue http://www.flickr.com/photos/mytripsmypics/ Tree and J Hendsill http://www.flickr.com/photos/foreversouls/ azli jamil http://www.flickr.com/photos/azlijamil01/

This is a list of people who’s work I had never heard of before, and found through Flickr. Most of them are acknowledged photographers and make active use of Flickr as a tutoring tool for their audience of admirers.

Frederico Mendes

http://www.flickr.com/photos/frederico_mendes/

Sol Lang

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sollang/

Eric Lafforgue

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mytripsmypics/

Tree and J Hendsill

http://www.flickr.com/photos/foreversouls/

azli jamil

http://www.flickr.com/photos/azlijamil01/

An overview by Javier Velasco-Martin November 2008 School of Information and Library Sciences The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill