aoir2011 self-injury on flickr presentation
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Preliminary findings of my dissertation research on photographs of self-injury on Flickr, presented at Association of Internet Researchers conference in Seattle, Oct 12 2011TRANSCRIPT
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Picturesque wounds:
Narrative
performance of self-
injurers on Flickr
October 12, 2011Yukari Seko (York/Ryerson
Universities)
Photo by Sebastian R
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Internet and self-injury (SI)
Internet as a low-risk venue to search info, express themselves, find peers with similar interest, and formulate SI subculture
Rapid increase of user-generated multimedia SI content
Existing studies: predominantly text-oriented Tend to to rely on medical
interpretation Focus mainly on “communities”
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Social media “Ego-centered,” relatively centralized
“I” network
Constant identity performance: “write themselves into being” (boyd, 2007)
Variety of social network besides cocooned “community,” through metadata and indexing activity (tagging, friending, linking, commenting etc)
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Photo-sharing social media (6 billions photos by Aug 2011)
Folksonomy: user-generated indexing, collective knowledge building
Relative tolerance for content (user-led regulation, flagging)
Multi-layered social space (personal space, p2p network through “contact,” loose interaction via tag, comments, and group)
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Flickr’s Multi-layered social
network1. peer-to-peer
contact
2. Via photo (comment/favorite)
Like it!
Thanx
4. Flickr group
Shared
topic
Join
3. Via Tag
boat boat
Modified the figure from Hansen, Shneiderman & Smith (2010)
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Method Flickr as symbiotic assemblage of
technocultural entities
1. Identify Semantic Landscape through quantitative tag analysis
2. Interrogate social interactions between photo-uploaders and viewers (discourse analysis)
3. Visual content analysis of individual photographs
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Research Subjects photos retrieved through text (keyword)
and tag 1051 photos retrieved via keyword “self-
injury” 864 photos via tag search
All photos are publicly accessible without Flickr account, marked as “Safe”
Textual info & metadata attached to each photo were retrieved via Flickr API
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Image generated by www.taggalaxy.de
Flickr photos tagged “selfinjury”
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Search style Keyword Tag
Mean # of photo 1051 864
#of unique tags 2161 1971
total# of tags 7949 8234
Average# of tags
8.7 9.5
Photos with no tag
137 N/A
Keyword vs. Tag
* Overlap btw 2 datasets = 508
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Top 25 tags for photos found via keyword search
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Tag appearance frequency
59%14%
7%
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Tag Group
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Tag network for “selfinjury” tag generated by Nodexl
Medical interpretation
SI-specific term
Photography
Body Parts
SI-awareness
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Photo by inju
Photo by SarahWynne
Photo by Cherry C.
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Discussion SI photographs as potential modality for
self-disclosure that facilitates performative social communication
SI as an act to deal with emotional pain in a visible manner may provoke aesthetic impulse of self-injurers to visually narrativize their life
Flickr, as a social site of display, seems to encourage SI photo uploaders to label and share their life freely, not necessarily bound to medical diagnosis
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Works cited boyd, d. (2007). Why Youth Social Network
Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life. In D. Buckingham (Ed.). MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Learning – Youth, Identity, and Digital Media Volume. Pp. 119-142.
Hansen, D., Shneiderman, B. & Smith, M. (2010)Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXLMorgan Kaufmann