The Unifying Organizing Function of #Tagging

Analog tagging

photo source

Tagging's roots in online photo collections

Photo tags

#The Beginner's Guide to the Hashtag (2013) #hashtags

What's Tagging? (Lifewire, 3/17 - tagging and #hashtags) or this one at Webopedia: Tagging

• "...bottom-up classifications which lack rigour..." (The Guardian |The Observer, 11/26/2005)
• A way to self-organize information (blog posts, bookmarks, notes, etc.)
• Social
• Searchable
• Also known as folksonomies or tagsonomies
• No promises of consistancy...internally or externally...

"Tough Talk about Tagging", a posting (September 5, 2007) from the Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired Campus blog that includes links to a few recent reflections about social tagging in 2007. (There used to be a bunch of comments that were worth reading, but a reboot of the CHE site made them disappear...which is an issue in and of itself....)

Tagging | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project

From the Pew Internet and American Life Project…later on, check out a few of their other reports… This report is waaay outdated, but still of interest. Do you use tags? Where and how?

Pragmatic thought as a philosophical foundation for collaborative tagging and the Semantic Web 

For fun:

Make your own tagclouds via EdWordle,  WordClouds (lots of options), or TagCrowd

Typical Content We Find on the Web

The usual stuff...

Blog Example: Doctoral Writing SIG

An example of a group blog which often also includes guest posters. Note the "Categories" section - an example of pretty basic tagging. This blog has a community of comment posters. 

Blog Example: OLDaily ~ by Stephen Downes

A great blog related to higher education and technology. Not via a corporate platform; he rolls his own.

WSU Pullman on Tumblr (a microblog)

A cautionary tale...

​CNN article: http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/health/aha-president-heart-attack/index.html

​WSU - Academics: https://wsu.edu/academics/

Problems...