Tagging systems represent the conceptual knowledge of a community. We experimentally tested whether people harness this collective knowledge when navigating through the Web. As a within-factor we manipulated people's prior knowledge (no knowledge vs. prior knowledge that was congruent/incongruent to the collective knowledge inherent in the tags). As between-factor we manipulated whether people had tag clouds available or not. In line with the Information Foraging Theory and with the Co-Evolution Model of individual learning and collective knowledge building, we found that people's prior knowledge and tag clouds influenced their navigation
Social Tagging as a decentralized collaborative
and collective
approach
to describe, structure
,
and share digital objects with user created
keywords has become increasingly popular
since 2004
. Once evolved from a
social bookmarking application service
,
mea
nwhile it is used for several
private and corporate purposes.
I
t
is also applicable
for e
-
HRM tasks, e.g.
augmenting employees’ profiles and competency models with tags. In this
paper we pursue to detect its applicability to support competency
acquisition.
The article deals with the rapidly spreading phenomenon of collective tagging and its impact on library community. The term collective tagging implies the method of organization which is used in order to organize, preserve, search, and exchange the c...
Instagram is widely known and used as a social media application for visual content. In order to categorize and describe their posted content as well as to make it retrievable, users can assign hashtags to each posting. What kind of hashtags do female and male Instagram users assign to their picture postings? Which differences and similarities exist? This study analyzes gender-specific image tagging behavior on Instagram.
umblr is one of the most popular content sharing websites, where the use of keyword tags that enhance the searchability and visibility of posts is prominent. However, this resource has been creatively exploited by some users beyond its folksonomic use: Since Tumblr does not have a separate comment section for posts, the tag section may also be used for tags with discourse functions such as expressing an opinion, a reaction, or including asides. This article explores the practice of including comments in tags, taking into account the specific technological features of Tumblr’s tagging system, as well as the role of the communities within the website.
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