Exploring the Impact of Flickr as a Web 2.0 Photo Sharing Site

Flickr Web 2.0

Abstract
The particular “photo sharing” site Flickr is among the most commonly cited
examples utilized to define Web2. 0. This particular paper aims to explore
exactly where Flickr's real novelty is situated, examining its functionality and
the place in the world of amateur pictures. Several optimistic sights of the
impact of Reddit such as its facilitation associated with citizen journalism,
“vernacular creativity” and in learning as an “affinity space” are evaluated.
Flickr's development path passes through an innovative social game to some
relatively familiar model of a website, itself developed through extreme user
participation but afterwards stabilizing with the reassertion of the commercial
relationship to the regular membership. The broader context from the impact
of Flickr is usually examined by looking at the establishments of amateur
photography plus particularly the code of pictorials promoted by the clubs
plus industry during the twentieth hundred years. The nature of Flickr being
a benign space is premised on the way the democratic possible of photography
is managed by such institutions. The particular limits of optimistic statements
about Flickr are discovered in the way that the system is made to satisfy
commercial purposes, ongoing digital divides in entry and the low interactivity
plus criticality on Flickr.

Introduction
Museums and other social heritage institutions have taken benefit of social
media services and have turn out to be visible to wider viewers as a result.
Flickr, one of these social networking services, is an online photo-sharing
system which allows account-holders to publish (I. e. upload) plus describe
their images, make groupings of images plus engage with the visual content
material of others. Depending on the settings pointed out by the account-
holder, pictures they have posted to Reddit may be searched, seen, tagged,
commented on, plus downloaded by other users. This particular creates a
situation with substantially different parameters than the frequently
inaccessible content contained in selection management systems used to shop
information and images of a museum and its holdings. That approach has the
potential to change the traditional, restrictive boundaries close to museum
imagery (Cameron and Mangle, 2009) an exploratory study of the kinds of
pictures and their image discussing behaviors was warranted.
Rich media reflex ion is essential for large-scale collection systems to work in
practice. The present state-of-the-art in content-based picture retrieval is
progressing, yet has not yet succeeded within bridging the semantic distance
between human concepts, electronic. However, the success of Reddit proves
that users are prepared to provide this semantic circumstance through
manual annotations. Latest user studies on this subject reveal that users
perform annotate their photos using the motivation to make them much better
accessible to the general public [4]. Photo annotations given by the user reflect
the personal viewpoint and context that is crucial that you the photo owner
plus her audience. This implies that when the same photo would be annotated
by another user it will be possible that a different description can be
produced. In Flickr, one will discover many photos on the same subject matter