About

Photocracy is searching for special photos and we've crowd-sourced the task to you. We ask you questions like "Which photo better represent the United States?" and then by combining your votes with the votes of others we are able to find photos that are strongly associated with specific countries. By having voters from all over the world we can learn about national identity and cross-national perceptions. In fact, everyone can see the results.

We've also crowd-sourced the task of finding the photos to you. If you have a photo that you think represents China, Japan, or the United States, please upload it so that others can vote for it. We've even made it easy for you to upload photos directly from Flickr.

Photocracy is an academic research project, and the initial data set will be used for a Senior Thesis at Princeton University. If you would like to help, please vote, encourage others to vote, and upload some photos. Feel free to contact us through our feedback form or email.

Sincerely,

Matthew Salganik, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Josh Weinstein, Princeton University Class of 2009