Thematic and Social Indicators for Flickr Groups

We study here Flickr groups in order to see whether they are actual communities or rather essentially thematic clusters. We describe a methodological framework for the analysis of networks of group members, measuring social density and tag dispersion among groups and give some results on a sample of 450 groups having around 500 members each.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ICWSM
• Authors: Christophe Prieur, Nicolas Pissard, Jean-Samuel Beuscart, Dominique Cardon, Pascal Pons
• Keywords: Actual Communities, Flickr Groups, ICWSM 2008, Internet Technology, Thematic Clusters