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Oct 29, 05:28 am: [tagcamp] Socio-cultural aspects underlying tagging
(all the dislaimers for live blogging apply: mistakes, misspellings, and misunderstandings)
Session info:
- danah boyd – Socio-cultural aspects underlying tagging
Notes:
- What are people actually doing?
- Taking to indicate identity—tag photos with the device that takes them
- Tagging to share them with others
- Tagging for characteristics
- Tags are not necessarily meant to be collapsed
- look at technorati and the attempt to pull together photos, blog posts and links. Are these meant to be pulled together?
- go to the generic to share (“girl”) but that doesn’t provide enough detail
- Social Animal
- seeing tags promotes homogeneity
- most systems have 1 tag per item; it’s what we’re used to
- are people doing anti-tags?
- this is bad music, bad film
- what are people’s goals with tagging?
- in our digital interactions, we’re asked to provide information that we don’t do in the physical world
- most people keep print pictures in a shoebox
- if people don’t organize things normally, how can we expect them to tag?
- how do we get other people engaged in tagging? People that wouldn’t normally.
- what does it take to make people to play with data?
- start with ego; begin with the personal
- what are people doing to help people get less stuff?
- not how can I read less but how can I read in a controlled fashion; I want the things with the most relevancy
- slice up the attention network using a social network using tags
- how many free riders can tagging support?
- [makes me wonder how many people consume the nptech feed vs. how many contribute to it; Marshall has data on the nptech meta feed that shows the consumption. But it probably doesn’t have anything like that adoption as the work that people do in individual tools]
- An example of mixed contexts
- as tagging community gets bigger the tagging practices gets bigger
- Difficulty with controlled vocabularies being consumed by non-experts
