Inproceedings,

Emerging motivations for tagging: Expression, performance, and activism

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WWW2007 Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organizations, (2007)

Abstract

Social tagging systems have generally been designed and used for personal information organization and retrieval. People use a variety of sites to tag photos, websites, blogs, and videos. Recently, commercial websites such as Amazon.com, have also implemented tagging on their websites. This type of tagging is not only social, where users can view other's tags and resources, but collective or collaborative, where any user can tag any resource. By analyzing the tags of two sites that implement free-for-all tagging - Amazon.com and Last.fm - this paper describes emergent social motivations for tagging. The motivations that were found in the systems include expression, performance, and activism.

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