Beyond sports
a visual analysis of olympic athletes' Instagram posts
Abstract
This paper investigates the Instagram visual features through the posts of Olympic athletes. Employing a methodology grounded in Digital Humanities and Cultural Analytics, 87,730 images were processed using computational vision tools that generated visualizations of this dataset for the identification, understanding, and analysis of aesthetic and visual patterns. The results revealed the existence of two visual aesthetic threads: the sports-related and the “instagrammable”. Most of the athletes' posts on Instagram are not directly related to sports, but to everyday life. However, sports-related posts tend to have more interactions from followers.
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