#DIGC101 Reflection Essay
On my online project one of the aspects I really wanted to incorperate was a sort of platform I wanted users to be able to paticiapte on. I have found that people feel more comfortabel relating visually with my personas blog post rather than the textual content. So I want my Reflection Essay to look at the power of visual images in online communities. I dont have a specific question, but I wanted to incorperate the popularity of Flickr and images in social networking sites (like profile pictures and backgrounds that define the person or identity you want to create). Also folksonomy and tagging, and how they can be forms of communication or interactions between people.
They say a picture contains a thousand words and I am starting to belive that. I want to see if there are any tertiary article about visual content. An exmaple maybe the popularity of emoticons replacing already shorted mobile slang words, for faster communication. Maybe visual is the next step in the technolgical communications, like posting a TwitPic rather than a Twitter tweet.
