Visual Social Media Lab
The Visual Social Media Lab brings together a group of internationally leading interdisciplinary researchers from academia and industry interested in analysing social media images. It was founded in 2014 in a conscious effort to create a meeting point for researchers from different sectors and disciplinary backgrounds, including Media and Communication Studies, Visual Culture, Art History, Software Studies, Sociology, Computer Science and Information Science. The aim of the VSML is to explore how different methods for the analysis of social media images can be combined or work in conjunction with each other.
Team: Farida Vis, Director Visual Social Media Lab, Faculty Research Fellow, Information School, University of Sheffield; Simon Faulkner, Co-Director VSML, Senior Lecturer in Art History, Manchester School of Art; Anne Burns, VSML Researcher; Alexandra Boutopoulou, VSML PhD researcher (University of Sheffield); Ray Drainville, VSML PhD researcher, Manchester School of Art.