Authors and Corporations: | , |
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In: | New Media & Society, 14, 2012, 4, p. 701-716 |
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SAGE Publications
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Media Type: | Article, E-Article |
Physical Description: | 701-716 |
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ISSN: |
1461-4448
1461-7315 |
DOI: | 10.1177/1461444811422889 |
published in: | New Media & Society |
Language: | English |
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Collection: | SAGE Publications (CrossRef) |
<jats:p> This article examines whether participatory media such as Flickr, with its seemingly unfettered tools for mapping citizen-created photographs, offers a means for a more comprehensive representation of minorities in a non-Western country. Assessment of geotags – markers designating longitude and latitude on an online map – associated with photographs of Thailand’s Muslims suggests that by replicating common stereotypes, user-generated content may be limiting rather than opening up discourses about minorities and that citizen participation via new media tools is more constrained and less free than commonly believed. </jats:p> |