While preparing and arranging today’s meal – Penne al Forno con Polpettine – to be documented and posted on Instagram, I thought: Why not preparing and arranging a pasta network with the help of the Instagram API and the Gephi network visualization software. I did this before for many other things such as Chinese [...]
The days are getting longer, the first flowers come into bloom and a very specific set of hashtags are spreading through Social Media platforms – it’s spring again! In this blogpost I took a look at spring-related pictures on Instagram. Right now, the use of hashtags on Instagram has not entered the mainstream. For this [...]
One of the most interesting sources of social media data right now is the iPhone based image sharing platform Instagram. This social networking platform is based on images, which can be compared with Flickr, but with Instagram the global dimension is much more visible. And because of the seamless Twitter and Facebook integration, the networking [...]
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