Flickr - how it changed my photos (project)

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About Flickr - how it changed my photos (project)

I´m writing a book on Flickr - well a PhD, but that´s a book so... - and you can help me a great deal! How?

My theses (in short) is:
Flickr, as any web 2.0 page for hosting photos, has a big influence on how we take, sort, retouch and publish photos as private photographers.
(a) Photos are used to fuel our memories on what has happened. Usually, we need a lot of information to recollect what a photo can show us. But private photos aren´t as well documented as public photos, so over the time, their information gets lost.
(b) Private photos are a private matter. We shoot them in a way that fits our private needs. When we start to shoot private photos for a public or semi-public web-site (like flickr in both senses) we start to change our way of shooting them. We embed less private information and start to adjust to the public interests
(a) and (b) seem to end in a fashion of private photography that reduces our capability of remembering and telling our very own and private story. More pictures are made, but less of our private live, experience and subtle information is captured in them.

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P.S.: Of course everyone how has a vital influence on my book will get acknowledgments in the final publication.