Mayo, I attach below a few more references on Flickr research you may be interested in. You can also keep an eye on the "flickr" tag feed from services such as CiteULike http://www.citeulike.org/tag/flickr or Bibsonomy http://www.bibsonomy.org/tag/flickr Dario ------------ Cha, M., Mislove, A., Adams, B., and Gummadi, K. P. Characterizing social cascades in flickr. In WOSP ’08: Proceedings of the first workshop on Online social networks (New York, NY, USA, 2008), ACM, pp. 13–18. Dubinko, M., Kumar, R., Magnani, J., Novak, J., Raghavan, P., and Tomkins, A. Visualizing tags over time. In WWW ’06: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web (New York, NY, USA, 2006), ACM Press, pp. 193–202. Hogg, T., and Lerman, K. Stochastic models of user-contributory web sites. In ICWSM 2009: International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (Mar 2009). http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0016 Kumar, R., Novak, J., and Tomkins, A. Structure and evolution of online social networks. In KDD ’06: Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining (New York, NY, USA, 2006), ACM Press, pp. 611–617. Lerman, K., and Jones, L. Social browsing on flickr. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM ’07) (Dec 2007). http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.HC/0612047 Marlow, C., Naaman, M., Boyd, D., and Davis, M. Ht06, tagging paper, taxonomy, flickr, academic article, to read. In HYPERTEXT ’06: Proceedings of the seventeenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia (New York, NY, USA, 2006), ACM Press, pp. 31–40. Mislove, A., Koppula, H. S., Gummadi, K. P., Druschel, P., and Bhattacharjee, B. Growth of the flickr social network. In WOSP ’08: Proceedings of the first workshop on Online social networks (New York, NY, USA, 2008), ACM, pp. 25–30. Mislove, A., Marcon, M., Gummadi, K. P., Druschel, P., and Bhattacharjee, B. Measurement and analysis of online social networks. In IMC ’07: Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement (New York, NY, USA, 2007), ACM, pp. 29–42. Negoescu, R. A., and Perez, D. G. Analyzing flickr groups. In CIVR ’08: Proceedings of the 2008 international conference on Content-based image and video retrieval (New York, NY, USA, 2008), ACM, pp. 417–426. Nov, O., Naaman, M., and Ye, C. What drives content tagging: the case of photos on flickr. In CHI ’08: Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (New York, NY, USA, 2008), ACM, pp. 1097–1100. Plangprasopchok, A., and Lerman, K. Constructing folksonomies from user-specified relations on flickr, May 2008. http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.3747 Prieur, C., Cardon, D., Beuscart, J.-S., Pissard, N., and Pons, P. The strength of weak cooperation: A case study on flickr, Feb 2008. http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2317 Sigurbjörnsson, B., and van Zwol, R. Flickr tag recommendation based on collective knowledge. In WWW ’08: Proceeding of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web (New York, NY, USA, 2008), ACM, pp. 327–336. van Zwol, R. Flickr: Who is looking? In IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (2007), pp. 184–190. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WI.2007.22 -- Dario Taraborelli Research Fellow Centre for Research in Social Simulation Department of Sociology University of Surrey Guildford GU2 7XH United Kingdom +44 (0)1483 683961 http://nitens.org/taraborelli