Work

The representation of street art on Flickr. Studying reception with visual content analysis

Year: 2017

Type: article

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.

Source: Visual Studies

DOI: 10.1080/1472586x.2017.1396193

Authors: Axel Philipps, Sergej Zerr, Eelco Herder

Institutions: Leibniz University Hannover, Radboud University Nijmegen, L3S Research Center

Language: English

Topic: Public Spaces through Art

Subfield: Urban Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: green

Funder: Leibniz-Gemeinschaft