[Air-l] Analyzing user generated multimedia content

[Nicole Reinhold]

Dear AoIRers

Since blog users and online community members are increasingly posting 
multimedia content and not only text, discourse analysis seems no longer 
sufficient to analyze this content. Therefore, I am looking for ways to 
classify and analyze images as such. One important aspect is certainly 
given by the context where the images are posted, but how can images be 
handled?

I looked at ethnographic and semiotic approaches to get some background, 
but so far I could not find a suitable way to classify or analyze this 
type of content.
Does anybody have experience in this area, or can anybody suggest a 
suitable approach for this problem?

best wishes Nicole

MA. Nicole Reinhold, 
Senior Research Consultant
Philips Design
nicole.reinhold at philips.com,  http://www.design.philips.com