Usage patterns of collaborative tagging systems
Journal of Information Science
HT06, tagging paper, taxonomy, Flickr, academic article, to read
Proceedings of the seventeenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
tagging, communities, vocabulary, evolution
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Why we tag: motivations for annotation in mobile and online media
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Fighting Spam on Social Web Sites: A Survey of Approaches and Future Challenges
IEEE Internet Computing
Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting group work
Social tagging roles: publishers, evangelists, leaders
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM workshop on Search in social media
What do you know?: experts, novices and territoriality in collaborative systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
What motivates people use social tagging
OCSC'13 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Online Communities and Social Computing
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This study investigates user ideas about the role and value of tags in social media. An analysis of 45 interviews with heavy Web users reveals that user perceptions of tags differ from common assumptions held by researchers and designers of social tagging systems. Among beliefs held by participants were that tags were query suggestions or links to other pages, sites, or advertisements - although most identified tags as categories or keywords - and that tags were generated automatically by the computer system. Several participants believed that tags were intended for not only other users but also systems such as search engines. Our findings indicate that Web users, including those who are taggers themselves, experience a high level of uncertainty and confusion about the nature, purpose and value of tags.