View source for Flickr


'''= one of the main photo-sharing sites'''

URL = http://www.flickr.com/


=Discussion=

Christophe Aguiton and Dominique Cardon:

“the organisation of exchanges doesn't require the strong involvement of the whole community, but a cluster of very active participants can lead the community in producing a lot of external effects. In massive communities, the diversity of involvements and goals of users can easily be overcome. Flickr is a good illustration of the fact that collective activities result from the opportunities created by personal publication. In a statistical study based on an extraction of all Flickr accounts, we have shown that only 19% of Flickr users use the cooperative functionality of Flickr service to monitor different contacts, to bring their photos in thematic groups and to tag photos  . Thus, this small minority of users is sufficient to create a massive and organized repertory of thematic pictures. Many different uses of Flickr can be observed by this way. Some use it only to store their own pictures, others to create communities of practices, and others to meet new friends as in MySpace. Yet it appears that the dynamic of this relational community depends on users' accepting to publicize at least a part of their personal production. Even if everyone is not involved in cooperative activities, in massive relational services the collective effects of cooperation can only be accomplished if there is a lot of individual participation.“

Source: The strength of Weak Cooperation. Christophe Aguiton and Dominique Cardon. Communication & Strategies,  No. 65, 1st Quarter 2007.


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