The rise and fall of the social media platform Flickr: Implications for nature recreation research
Journal: Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism
Year: 2025

Social media is increasingly used as data source for studying nature recreation, with Flickr being one of the most used sources. Nevertheless, a detailed understanding of these global social media datasets – their geographical and temporal distributions – remains limited. First, we reviewed literature studying nature recreation with social media data to investigate how Flickr has been used and what has motivated its use for research purposes. Second, we described the spatiotemporal characteristi