Flickr Assignment

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In preparing for the Flickr assignment my group was able to work together quickly and efficiently while accomplishing our goal for this project. We met in class and discussed possible stories we could tell with the pictures and mutually decided to tell a story of “Going Green”, urging people not to litter. Because of our proficient group meeting, we were able to start taking our photos for the project right away during the next class. After we finished taking our pictures we uploaded them to Flickr. With this being the first time anyone in my group had used Flickr we found it very easy to understand and maneuver. With only a few questions for our professor we uploaded the pictures and were able to tell our story within minutes of taking the photographs

I feel that Flickr could be a good tool for creating user-generated content and sharing that content with others, but it does not have enough recognition yet to be completely effective. I was not even aware of Flickr until this project and I think many of my peers are equally as unaware. If more people do not learn about Flickr then all of the photos, stories, and information on there will disappear. With Flickr, people have the ability to see first hand points of views from these photos that you may not be able to get elsewhere, making this device very useful and necessary for learning more about world happenings.

I also feel that Flickr has a large possibility of becoming a photojournalism tool in the future. With more people becoming aware and using things like YouTube, Flickr should be soon to catch up. Like the author of the articles commented, “ I don't know what tools could make it this easy for other kinds of journalists to assemble a compelling story in pieces, but clearly Flickr has made something possible for photographers that was not possible before”.