The representation of street art on Flickr. Studying reception with visual content analysis. Issue 4 (2nd October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Philipps, Axel; Zerr, Sergej; Herder, Eelco
• Is Part Of: Visual studies. Volume 32:Issue 4(2017)
• Page Start: 382
• Page End: 393
• Publication Date: 2017-10-02
• Subjects: Visual perception -- Periodicals; Visual anthropology -- Periodicals; Visual sociology -- Periodicals; 301
• DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2017.1396193
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1472-586X

Abstract

Abstract : Street art is public art; it's accessible; it's of the people; it's an urban voice; it's on public view; it's on-the-street. Nonetheless, the World Wide Web has been party responsible for street art becoming both recognised and popular. As a result, this study is investigating how street art is represented on the open photo-sharing platform, Flickr. It is a social network site offering a large portfolio of photographs showing a wide range of images, which have been categorised and classified using 'tags'. By using a visual content analysis based on theoretically determined categories to examine the uploaded photographs, this investigation will shed light on what a selection of Flickr users recognise as street art and how they record and index it.