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Machine Vision and Social Media Images: Why Hashtags Matter

Machine Vision and Social Media Images: Why Hashtags Matter

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Studying images in social media poses specific methodological challenges, which in turn have directed scholarly attention toward the computational interpretation of visual data. When analyzing large numbers of images, both traditional content analysis as well as cultural analytics have proven valuable. However, these techniques do not take into account the contextualization of images within a socio-technical environment. As the meaning of social media images is co-created by online publics, bound through networked practices, these visuals should be analyzed on the level of their networked contextualization. Although machine vision is increasingly adept at recognizing faces and features, its performance in grasping the meaning of social media images remains limited. Combining automated analyses of images with platform data opens up the possibility to study images in the context of their resonance within and across online discursive spaces. This article explores the capacities of hashtags and retweet counts to complement the automated assessment of social media images, doing justice to both the visual elements of an image and the contextual elements encoded through the hashtag practices of networked publics.

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OrganisatieHogeschool van Amsterdam
Gepubliceerd inSocial Media + Society SAGE Publications Ltd, Vol. 6, Uitgave: 2, Pagina's: 1-15
Datum2020-04-01
TypeArtikel
DOI10.1177/2056305120928485
TaalEngels

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