Visual Conversation Styles in Web Communities

Abstract

Abstract

“Nice Picture Comment!” Graphicons in Facebook Comment Threads

“…2,5,6,15,18] that users are disposed to adapt graphical means -even those originally intended for unrelated purposes such as entertainment or general amusement, for example videos and text-in-image memes -as conversational devices. It follows from this that other kinds of graphics, such as three-dimensional representations, may well be similarly adapted in future computer-mediated communication.…”

“…[28] examined the use of personal photographs in online chat. [15] analyzed a community image blog and found six conversation styles, including image quote and text-in-picture. [6] studied Radar, a mobile application that allows users to post personal photographs, including 'selfies,' to a private list of invited friends.…”

Mycrocosm: Visual Microblogging

“…While we are familiar with sites like Flickr 2 , Zoomr 3 and Youtube, Mcdonald [8] has done a deeper study on the use of image (primarily photographic) as a conversation tool in web communities and identified six broad categories of visual conversation styles in those communities; reaffirming our belief that more graphical alternatives to text conversation are indeed practical.…”

“…According to the Pew Internet & American life project, 44% of US Internet users have created content online [6]. Nardi, Schiano and Gumbrecht [10] have examined peoples' use of and motivations for blogging, while more recently Java et al [5] have looked at usage patterns within Twitter 8 . Much blogging is done primarily as a social activity.…”

Multimedia Chat for Helpdesks: A Requirements Study, a Practical SOA Architecture, and an Interface Prototype

“…Additionally, some offer tools to reference directly into the images [10]; allowing people to point and direct other viewer's attention without a long verbal description. Other image based websites use the images and relative position on shared public pages, to directly interact and create visual dialogs [11].…”