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CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Give and take: a study of consumer photo-sharing culture and practice
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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This paper documents locative photographic practices on photo-sharing sites Flickr and The Grid and analyses how geo-tagged photographs of the Guguletu in South Africa represent interpersonal meanings and social distance. Distinct communicative genres are associated with (i) a tourist view of Guguletu shared via Flickr, and (ii) intimate social exchanges by residents meeting online contacts via mobile social network, The Grid. These differences are a reminder that access to mobility and uses of mobile media vary according to socio-economic status, and that priorities for the design of mobile image-sharing systems may differ in this context, where visual interactional genres and playful interactions appear to supercede locative uses of systems such as The Grid.