time, #truth, #tradition An image-text relationship on Instagram: photo and hashtag

This chapter aims to examine the relationship between image (photo) and text (hashtag), on the photo sharing social network Instagram, through the examples #time, #truth, #tradition. A hashtag is a type of label or metadata tag primarily used on social networking websites and microblogging services....

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Published inIn the Beginning was the Image: The Omnipresence of Pictures p. 139
Main Author Ágnes Veszelszki
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Peter Lang GmbH 20.12.2016
Subjects
Applied sciences
Communication systems
Communications
Communications media
Communications technology
Computer mediated communications
Controlled vocabularies
Data management
Data processing
Digital communication systems
Graphics
Image analysis
Image classification
Image processing
Information management
Information science
Internet
Keywords
Language
Lexicology
Linguistics
Nonnative languages
Nonverbal communication
Online social networking
Pictorial representation
Social media
Social sciences
Subject terms
Technology
Terminology
Visual materials
Words
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Summary:This chapter aims to examine the relationship between image (photo) and text (hashtag), on the photo sharing social network Instagram, through the examples #time, #truth, #tradition. A hashtag is a type of label or metadata tag primarily used on social networking websites and microblogging services. It makes it easier for users to find content of the same topic. Hashtags are created by inserting the hash character (#)¹ in front of a word or unspaced phrase. The tagging system was initially popularized by Twitter², and later taken over by Instagram, Facebook and other social networking websites as well. Now hashtags trend
ISBN:3631678606
9783631678602
DOI:10.3726/b10396